Artemis II launch and two Sians

About this episode

Richard Hollingham reports from the Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch of Artemis II, featuring interviews with astronauts and engineers.

Richard Hollingham is at the Kennedy Space Center for the (historic) launch of Artemis II to the Moon. Sue Nelson joins him from Space Boffins HQ to hear Richard's launch day audio diary and interviews with astronaut Sian Proctor and Artemis engineer Sian Cleaver from Airbus. Plus Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman answers a listener question, and NASA (or Nasa) head Jared Isaacman answers Richard's question on Earthrise. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

People in this episode

Hosts: Richard Hollingham, Sue Nelson

Guests: Sian Proctor, Sian Cleaver

Topics covered

• Artemis II
• space exploration
• moon mission
• astronauts
• engineering
• NASA

Keywords

• Artemis II
• moon
• NASA
• space exploration
• Sian Proctor
• Sian Cleaver
• Reid Wiseman
• Jared Isaacman

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NASA

Places: Kennedy Space Center

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