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BBC Inside Science

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

2024 is an exciting year for lunar exploration. For Inside Science this week Marnie Chesterton investigates the planned missions to the Moon over the next twelve months.

It’s been more than fifty years since the last manned mission to the Moon was completed. But that’s about to change with NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission. This will not only be the first manned lunar flyby of the Moon since 1972, but also the first mission to have a woman and person of colour on board. Reid Wiseman, Commander of the Artemis II manned mission explains more about the mission and even lets us into a few secrets about what culinary delights await astronauts in space.

But it’s not just NASA going to the Moon in 2024. China’s Chang’e 6 mission is lifting off in May, aiming to collect samples of rock from the far side of the moon. Quentin Parker, Director of the Laboratory for Space Research at the University of Hong Kong has a unique insight into China’s mission and has been following progress.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producers: Hannah Fisher Editor: Richard Collings Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth 

BBC Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.

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0:00.0	I love you and would kill before I would see you taken from me.
0:06.0	Lady Killers is back.
0:08.0	Join me Lucy Worsley to investigate infamous female criminals from the past.
0:13.2	It's really important that we listen to these voices about the society in which they lived.
0:18.0	We're seeking to understand these women from the perspective of 21st century feminists.
0:23.0	We cannot put women into history on the basis of likeability.
0:26.0	Put all the women back, the sinners and the saints.
0:29.0	Lady Killers, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.0	BBC Sounds,
0:35.0	Music Radio Podcasts.
0:38.0	This is the podcast of Inside Science,
0:41.0	first broadcast on the 4th of January, 2024.
0:45.0	Hello, and a very happy new year.
0:49.0	What a 12 month it's already shaping up to be in the world of science and discovery.
0:54.0	2024 looks to be a big year for the exploration of our solar system
0:59.0	with a particular focus on our closest neighbor,
1:02.0	the lump of rock that holds a special place for all of us, the moon.
1:06.0	Back in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space,
1:12.0	and the so-called space race between the USA and the
1:15.4	Soviet Union during the 60s advanced our understanding of the Moon with every new
1:20.5	mission all building towards that moment in 1969 when Apollo 11 landed on the
1:26.8	Moon and Neil Armstrong took his legendary very first steps on its surface.
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