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Monday 24 May 2021 : Introducing our new original podcast. Here’s episode 1: Hacking Hollywood. A movie, Kim Jong-un and a devastating cyber-attack. The story...
Wednesday 12 August 2020 : Emily’s grandad worked on the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. Could another man – Leo Szilard - have stopped it? This is the new series...
Sunday 07 June 2020 : “I still have nightmares about this.” Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere? An error could see them...
Thursday 16 April 2020 : Special episode with Nasa legend, flight controller John Aaron. This extended interview ranges from John first learning about the...
Sunday 12 April 2020 : The crew are off course, 200,000 miles from home and without a guidance computer. Their lives now depend on their flying skills - and Jim...
Saturday 11 April 2020 : Producer Andrew Luck-Baker explains why the season finale will be delayed.
Sunday 05 April 2020 : “We were being poisoned by our own exhalation.” Carbon dioxide threatens to kill the crew. Mission control must improvise as the most...
Sunday 29 March 2020 : Power must be brutally rationed after the crew fly around the Moon. As systems are switched off, their cold, dark ship is reduced to little...
Monday 16 March 2020 : “We were in deep, deep trouble.” This is Mission Control like you’ve never heard it before. After the explosion, denial and disbelief...
Monday 09 March 2020 : “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” To ignite catastrophe would take just the flick of a single switch. Why Nasa’s third bid to land on...
Wednesday 19 February 2020 : Jump on board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story, told by the people who flew it and saved it. Lift off is on...
Monday 23 December 2019 : Hans Zimmer in a special episode about creating the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. The Oscar and Grammy-winning composer talks music,...
Friday 19 July 2019 : “We choose to go.” The season finale comes from where President John F Kennedy made his famous Moon speech to rally the US behind the...
Sunday 14 July 2019 : History as it happened, uninterrupted: every word, every crackle, the tension and triumph. Hear how Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became...
Sunday 14 July 2019 : History as it happened, explained. Kevin Fong guides us through the descent to the Moon from start to finish, using Capcom Charlie Duke’s...
Sunday 07 July 2019 : We are five and a half minutes to the moon. Tension goes “through the roof”. Neil Armstrong takes control and the fuel starts to run...
Sunday 23 June 2019 : Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded. As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their...
Sunday 16 June 2019 : War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. And then NASA took the biggest risk in its history. There was the Vietnam...
Sunday 09 June 2019 : The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time...
Sunday 02 June 2019 : "You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened 21 months later – Apollo’s first successful...
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