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EPISODE · Jan 27, 2025 · 1H 10M

NASA, the BBC and the Soviet spacecraft on the Isle of Man

from Space Boffins, from the Naked Scientists · host Richard Hollingham, Sue Nelson

This month, recently-retired BBC space correspondent, Jonathan Amos, and former NASA employee Herb Baker, author of From Apollo to Artemis: Stories from my 50 years with NASA, discuss reporting from a rocket launch, growing up with classmates whose dads are Apollo astronauts, and how material Herb's mother used to fix an aircon unit at home helped her save a Skylab mission. Plus, Richard sees a Soviet-era VA space capsule in the Manx Motor Museum on the Isle of Man... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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