Popular science presenter and space expert Dallas Campbell was one of millions following NASA’s recent Artemis II mission around the Moon, with live updates by the four astronauts from space.

Dallas talks us through the significance of the mission, how it compares with Apollo, and his delight at how it’s captured public imagination at a politically divisive time on Earth. 

His brilliant new book – Space Journal: The Art and Science of Cosmic Exploration – is a history of space exploration, with people at its heart. It’s a celebration of our perception of the cosmos, and our efforts to reach it, from the seventeenth century to the present day.