Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II

About this episode

The episode discusses NASA's Artemis II mission, which aims to send astronauts to loop around the Moon.

Humans are returning to the Moon - hear all about it on the BBC’s space podcast. 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II is following Nasa’s mission to loop around the Moon, with a new episode every day. Starts on Monday 30 March 2026. Search for 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Follow or subscribe now so you don’t miss an episode. Nasa plans to return to the Moon for the first time in more than half a century. Its Artemis II mission aims to send four astronauts to loop around the Moon. They are planning to go further from Earth than any human in history. The story of Artemis II will be told by space scientist, Maggie Aderin and British astronaut, Tim Peake, with regular guest, US space journalist Kristin Fisher. 13 Minutes is the BBC’s space podcast, telling epic space stories, including the first Moon landing, Apollo 13 and the space shuttle. Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music.

People in this episode

Host: Maggie Aderin

Guests: Tim Peake, Kristin Fisher

Topics covered

• space exploration
• Artemis II
• Moon mission
• NASA
• astronauts

Keywords

• Artemis II
• NASA
• Moon
• space podcast
• astronauts
• Maggie Aderin
• Tim Peake

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nasa, BBC

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