Recommending: 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II

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0:59of brunch. Check out their deviled eggs, cold-pressed juices and more. Spring is in bloom now at Whole Foods Market. As a Tech Life listener, we thought you might enjoy listening to the latest season of the BBC's Space Podcast that's starting Monday 30th of March. NASA are sending four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon. And our podcast, 13 Minutes Presents Artemis II, is the place to go for all the latest news and updates. Here's space scientist Maggie Adairin with more. And as we leave the moon in Taurus Littrell, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

1:52Godspeed to coup of Apollo 17. It's more than half a century since anyone went to the moon. The Apollo missions came to an end in 1972. But now, humans are set to return.

2:11NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts to loop around the moon.

2:21hopefully they'll go further from Earth than any human in history and if humans are returning to missions around the moon well the BBC space podcast 13 Minutes has to return to 13 Minutes is coming back with 13 Minutes presents Artemis 2 3, 2, 1, 0. We have committed. We have committed. We have committed. I'm Maggie Adairin-Pocock. I'm a space scientist specialising in space telescopes and have been obsessed with space since a young age. And if you haven't yet discovered 13 Minutes, previous seasons have told the story of the first moon landing, the near disaster of Apollo 13 and the space shuttle story.

3:17And now I'm going to be bringing you a space story in real time as it happens. Every day for around two weeks, we'll have the latest news and we'll get to understand the details of the mission. And we'll hear from the people who are making it happen. We have thousands of people that have brought us to this moment. The thousands of people that have been working near 24-7 preparing us for this rollout, the thousands of people across the country that trained and prepared this crew to undertake this mission, the controllers that will look out for them on space, the recovery crews that will bring them safely home to their family at the conclusion of their 10-day journey.

4:04with me in the pod for this special series of 13 minutes we have an astronaut tim peak tim spent 186 days on the international space station during which time he conducted a space walk, ran a marathon and performed over 250 experiments. Having lived and worked in space, I know just how extraordinary these missions are, not only for the astronauts, but for everyone on the ground who makes them possible. Until now, fewer than 700 people have had the privilege of going into space. That number could increase remarkably in the coming years and Artemis 2 could well represent the beginning of that new age.

4:46Alongside us will be Christine Fisher, former space correspondent at CNN. And hopefully, Christine won't mind me mentioning that both her parents were space shuttle astronauts. Yeah, Maggie, I grew up surrounded by astronauts in spaceflight, but Artemis II does feel different. This is the beginning of a whole new era of exploration. We rise together, back to the moon and beyond. As well as Tim and Kristen, we'll have the expertise of the BBC News Science Team 2. Search for 13 Minutes Presents Artemis 2, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

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