Episode 6

Comedian and space enthusiast Helen Keen (creator of BBC Radio 4's multi-award-winning It Is Rocket Science) welcomes you to a podcast inspired by space travel in general and Tim Peake's mission to the International Space Station in particular. In this episode - (1min 44 secs) we meet Andrew Winnard, a space medicine researcher, who explains how studying astronauts might one day help to fix your sore back, and also the perils of going to the gym in space... then (24mins 10secs) Dr Sheila Kanani tells us why she loves the moons of Saturn, and talks 200 years of the Royal Astronomical Society For more from our guests: Andrew Winnard's work is covered here And also more on the research generally ...& of course Tim Peake's marathon Ian Simmons is at Follow Dr Sheila Kanani on Twitter - and via her website . You can find out more about visiting the wonderful Royal Astronomical Society here

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Episode 6 is an episode from Adventures in Space and Tim by Helen Keen.

This episode is 00:34:58 long.

This episode was published on Mar 27, 2017.

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