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Stories, opinion and debate from the final frontier – including a guide on how to live in space, 20th century legends and the stories of missions past and present.
What is the future of space flight? With a successful Nasa landing on Mars and more commercial space travel in development than ever before,...
Taking place over just eight months, four perilous and eventful space missions laid the foundations for a successful Moon landing. Each push...
Governing moon miners, asteroid hunters and space junk sounds pretty tricky, but we better get our act together. This year the majority of s...
If history had been kinder, aviator Wally Funk might have become the first woman on the Moon. In the early 1960s, she was one of 13 female p...
Voyager 1 and 2: Still operating after 40 years in the depths of space. Voyager 1 is currently some 20 billion kilometres from Earth travell...
The plans to set up human colonies in space and spaceships that will take us to the stars. Richard Hollingham travels to the Tennessee Valle...
Why African nations are so keen to journey into the future as a space-going continent. Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock visits Nigeria,...
The first footsteps on the Moon were one giant step for 'man', but from the early days of aeronautics women have also been involved in space...
On Christmas Day 2003, a British space craft was due to land on Mars and begin searching for signs of life. The late Professor Colin Pilling...
In 1979, the American space station, Skylab, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Large fragments hit SW Australia instead of the Indian Ocean...
How science, engineering and medicine come together to get fragile human life safely into space. Where should our ambitions lie? Originally...
How science, engineering and medicine are trying to understand the limits of human physiology to ensure survival in space. Originally broadc...
In 1970, three American astronauts were heading to the moon when disaster struck. Astronaut Fred Haise describes what happened. Originally b...
Why has the moon fascinated humans for so long? The moon in culture, how it affects life on Earth and what the moon is really like. Original...
Take a sonic tour of the universe - this time, deep into the cosmos. Some sounds are recorded sound, others are data that have been sonified...
Salute Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. In June 1963, she boarded Vostok 6 at Baikonur cosmodrome and went into orbit. Originally broa...
In 1990 the Hubble Telescope was launched into space, but the first pictures it sent back to earth were out of focus. Originally broadcast 2...
The previously silent world of outer space is getting noisier. Listen in to sounds recorded on board spacecraft and sonifications of space d...
The skin suit that combats the effects of microgravity, pushing human physiology and psychology to the limit, and the 'Overview' effect.Orig...
Saturn’s moon Enceladus has giant geysers blasting water into space at supersonic speeds. Does it also harbour life beneath its crust? Origi...
For the first time, America sends two monkeys into space and brings them back alive. It's a watershed moment for the US space agency, Nasa....
Astronaut Luca Parmitano was performing maintenance on the International Space Station when he noticed water leaking into his helmet. Origin...