So, we’re flying humans around the moon and bringing them back. But why are we doing it? To build a strategic outpost? To play power games? To do science? And if it's science, isn’t the useful value of resources on the moon a bit opaque? For example, why do we need to mine helium-3 when we can produce it on earth? More problematic, if you’re investing billions of dollars in putting sensitive instruments on the moon and you’ve got good access to light and frozen water, what happens when somebody else comes along and says: “I’d quite like a bit of that as well please”? How quickly does astropolitics become geopolitics?

Join Alice and her guests, Libby Jackson, Head of Space at the Science Museum and Ian Annett, Chair UKSpace Launch Committee, as they debate the value of Artemis II and celebrate the idea of being driven to push boundaries. “We’re human, what can we do?”

Contributors:

Alice Bunn, President of UKspace 

Dr Alice Bunn OBE FIMechE FRAeS CEng | LinkedIn

UKspace: Overview | LinkedIn

Ian Annett, Chair UKSpace Launch Committee

Ian Annett | LinkedIn

Libby Jackson OBE FRAeS, Head of Space, the Science Museum

Libby Jackson OBE FRAeS | LinkedIn

Key topics covered:

• Artemis II
• Apollo missions
• Mining on the moon
• Astropolitics
• Collaboration in space
• Cost of commercial launches
• Security in space
• The lunar economy
• Mars missions
• Understanding evolution
• Kerosene alternatives

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