In this edition: We hear the highlights of the Appleton Space Conference, talk to Virgin Galactic's president Will Whitehorn, learn about ESA’s Rosetta Mission, and celebrate 25 years of IRAS.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
spacePod #001 Dec 2006In this, our very first edition: Chris Howe looks back onSMART-1, Europe's first mission to the Moon. RichardHarrison explains how the STEREO solar mission will work,with Chris Davis travelling to Cape Canaveral, Florida towitness the launch of the mission. Tom Rado looks at howwe make sure satellite components can survive a rocketlaunch using a special test facility.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
spacePod #003 Jun 2007In this edition: Chris Davis visits the recently opened space gallery at the Science Museum, London speaking to Nicholas Patrick, a British born NASA astronaut, as well as Doug Millard who gives us a tour of the gallery. Tom Rado talks to Mike Lockwood about the real science behind climate change and what has so far been denounced by this year's IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports. We also take a look at the Hampshire-based Chilbolton Observatory, 40 years after it bega ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
spacePod #002 Feb 2007In this edition: Chris Davis talks to musician and jounalist Alex James about how he became interested in space. We also take a look back at the 2nd Appleton Space Conference held at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Steve Crothers journeys to the Arctic where the EISCAT radar is located on the island of Svalbard, in search of the aurora. Then in the first of the mini-series Prof. Bob Bingham explains what Pulsars are - and whether they do actually 'pulse'...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
spacePod #004 Oct 2007In this edition: We celebrate 50 years of Space Exploration, speak to Paul Eccleston about MIRI and the James Webb Space Telescope and tavel to Manchester to find out about Ruth Bamford’s mini-magnetosphere experiments.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website