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The Supermassive Podcast

Returning to the Moon - with ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer

The Supermassive Podcast

Izzie Clarke

Astronomy, History, Science, Physics

4.6556 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Climb aboard The Supermassive Rocket, Izzie and Becky are (talking about) sending humans back to the moon. Joining them on their trip is European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer and Jacki Mahaffey, the Chief Training Officer for NASA’s Artemis II mission. Plus, Dr Robert Massey, the Deputy Director of the Royal Astronomical Society, is there as well to answer your questions and share his top stargazing tips.


For more supermassive astronaut episodes, here's our episode with Samantha Cristoforetti and another with Gene Cernan.


Keep sending your questions to The Supermassive Podcast at podcast@ras.ac.uk or find us on Instagram, @Supermassive Pod.


The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Personally, I think I would be terrible.

0:03.4

Putting my horrendous motion sickness aside,

0:06.7

the astronauts have to be able to know how to do all the things.

0:10.8

What's the current timeline with Artemis and having a crew return to the moon?

0:16.3

Hello and welcome to the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society

0:20.6

with me,

0:21.4

science journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Beggy Smethurst.

0:25.4

We are going to the moon.

0:27.9

Not literally.

0:29.2

Unfortunately, the Supermassive podcast isn't suddenly entering the private space sector.

0:34.0

Could you imagine if we did?

0:35.6

We could make, oh my gosh, we could make this supermassive rocket,

0:38.5

which has a lovely ring to it, to be honest. We could, we could, but we're not compensating

0:43.7

for anything, don't worry, is it? Anyway, let's avoid that rabbit hole this month. It's all

0:49.3

about sending humans back to the moon and ready the astronaut alarm everybody because we have

0:55.5

European Space Agency astronaut Mataisaas Mora on the show.

0:59.9

We're very excited.

1:02.3

We do love astronauts.

1:03.3

Anyway, he'll be talking about the latest plans for lunar exploration.

1:07.0

Plus, we'll also have a chat with Jackie Mahaffi, the chief training officer for NASA's Artemis II mission.

1:13.9

I'm so excited.

1:15.5

But it's not a show without Dr. Robert Massey, the deputy director of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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