Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

The Discussion:

• What Einstein would have made of an iPhone. (Cat memes.)
• The goods and ills of social media.
• Free teaching for teachers to teach space and astronomy.
• Jeni talking Pluto on the BBC.
• A trip down technology Memory Lane.
• And get out and look at Comet Neowise!

 

The News: Rounding up the space exploration news we have a Mars launch window and NASA storming ahead with Artemis plans so this month is all about the moon and Mars:

• The Kennedy Space Centre takes delivery of rocket engines for their SLS rocket.
• Funding for more SLS moon rockets.
• A new lunar rover to help plan human missions.
• New modules for the lunar orbiter.
• NASA innovation funding for new long duration mission capabilities.
• United Arab Emirates’ Mars orbiter launching this month.
• China’s Tianwen-1 Mars mission with an orbiter, lander and rover

Main news story: Getting ready to launch the biggest ever rover to Mars.

 

The Electromagnetic Spectrum: The visible light part of the spectrum. How telescopes were developed and became ever more powerful.

 

Q&A: Do you think we will see humans space exploration beyond Mars in our lifetimes? Pieter Johnson @Nascothornet on Twitter.

 

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