Missions

Prof Andrew Coates of University College London pictured with the ExoMars 2022 PanCam instrument. Credit: ESA

Interview How the ExoMars 2020 rover will search for signs of life on the Red Planet

Artist's impression of NASA's Space Launch System leaving Earth orbit on its way to the Moon. Credit: NASA

How NASA’s Space Launch System will take crew to the Moon and Mars

European Space Agency astrobiologist Dr Nicol Caplin

Radio Astronomy Podcast Interview with astrobiologist Nicol Caplin

Artist’s impression of the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA

Space 2022 The biggest missions to look out for this year

NASA astronaut Nicole Stott

Radio Astronomy Podcast Interview with NASA astronaut Nicole Stott

Frank Borman was a US Air Force test pilot before joining NASA. He also flew on Gemini 7, a 14 day endurance mission to see how the human body and mind coped with long duration spaceflight.

Interview Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8

The Apollo 8 crew pictured at a flight simulator at Kennedy Space Center. Left to right: James A. Lovell Jr., William A. Anders, and Frank Borman. Image Credit: NASA

Apollo 8 The Christmas mission to the Moon

Artist's illustration of an astronaut in Earth orbit dropping a bag of tools

6 mishaps in the history of spaceflight

An illustration showing the proposed StarTram. Credit: NASA

7 spaceflight inventions that never took off

Astronaut Nora AlMatrooshi at press conference

Radio Astronomy Podcast Interview with astronaut Nora Al Matrooshi

An artist's impression showing the Lucy spacecraft flying by a Trojan Asteroid near Jupiter.

Lucy: The Mission to explore the Trojan Asteroids

Radio Astronomy Podcast An interview with Tim Peake

North America and the Pacific can be seen clearly in this view of Earth captured during Apollo 10, 18 May 1969. Credit: NASA / restored by Toby Ord

Gallery Apollo photos of Earth from space

Astronauts Kathryn Sullivan and Sally Ride during the STS-41-G mission, October 1984. Credit: Space Frontiers / Stringer

Women astronauts who changed spaceflight forever

Jupiter's belts and zones are what give the gas giant its stripy appearance. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Radio Astronomy Podcast Jupiter Special