Our Artemis II Debrief

About this episode

The Supermassive Team reflects on the Artemis II mission and its significance.

What. A. Mission. The Supermassive Team are in AWE of the Artemis II Crew and the people that helped them to loop around the Moon. From scientific aims to societal impact, Izzie Clarke, Richard Hollingham and Dr Robert Massey reflect on this latest step to returning to the Moon and their experiences of watching it unfold. Richard was at the launch, Robert is pen pals with Reid Wiseman, and Izzie... is extremely jealous of them both! Join  The Supermassive Club  for ad-free listening, forum access, and extra content from the team. And email your questions to  podcast@ras.ac.uk  or follow us on Instagram, @SupermassivePod. The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Izzie Clarke, Richard Hollingham, Dr Robert Massey

Topics covered

• Artemis II
• Moon mission
• space exploration
• scientific aims
• societal impact

Keywords

• Artemis II
• Moon
• space mission
• Izzie Clarke
• Richard Hollingham
• Dr Robert Massey
• Reid Wiseman
• scientific aims
• societal impact

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Royal Astronomical Society

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