Artemis II: 13. Splashdown

About this episode

The episode discusses the successful splashdown of the Orion 'Integrity' probe and features reflections from astronaut Dr Anna Fisher.

After 9 days, 1 hour, 32 minutes and 15 seconds and 1.1 million kilometres of travel, the Orion “Integrity” probe splashed down successfully on April 11th at 00:07:32 UTC (GMT). Tim Peake, Maggie Aderin, Kristin Fisher, Rebecca Morelle and the 13 Minutes podcast touches down with this episode. We are also joined by Nasa legend and former shuttle astronaut, Dr Anna Fisher to reflect on the mission. 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II will return... But before then, watch Maggie and Tim in BBC Horizon ‘s “Artemis: To the Moon and Back", to see and learn more about the years leading up to this mission. Season 4 theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music. 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II is a BBC Audio Science production for the BBC World Service. Presenters: Tim Peake and Maggie Aderin Producers: Alex Mansfield and Sophie Ormiston Series editor: Martin Smith Commissioning team: Jon Manel, Anne Dixey and Katy Davis

People in this episode

Hosts: Tim Peake, Maggie Aderin

Guest: Dr Anna Fisher

Topics covered

• space exploration
• Artemis II
• NASA missions
• splashdown
• Orion probe
• astronaut experiences

Keywords

• Orion probe
• splashdown
• NASA
• Tim Peake
• Maggie Aderin
• space mission
• Dr Anna Fisher

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nasa, BBC World Service

Books & works: Artemis: To the Moon and Back

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