Britain's First Astronaut
This podcast extra is our full length interview with Dr Helen Sharman, Britain's First astronaut and the first woman to visit the Russian Mir Space Station in 1991.
22 Mar 202438min
Wet Moons and Tippy landers
This month our intrepid crew of the good ship Awesome investigate sub surface oceans on the moons of the solar system, smoking stars, distant blackholes, oversized structures and of course tippy over ...
1 Mar 20241h 2min
Blasting Soil - Interview with Dr Phil Metzger
This month Dr Jen talks to Dr Phil! Dr Phil Metzger, 30 years at NASA where he has worked on various missions and programmes including the ISS snd Space Shuttle, while more recently he has been invest...
17 Feb 202453min
Awesome Astronomy Episode #140
This month we explore the exciting announcements from the European Space Agency as they outline their new missions for the 2030s. LISA, a space based gravitational wave detector and EnVision, a Venus ...
2 Feb 20241h 9min
#139 Awesome Astronomy January 2024
This episode, it's Jen and a special guest exploring the inexplicable Big Ring, the first proof connecting supernovae to black holes and neutron stars, cyclones on a far-away world, dazzling images of...
15 Jan 20241h 13min
Awesome Astronomy Panto and Review of the Year 2023!
Festive silliness (bit naughty!), a review of the Space and astronomy year and a look ahead to what 2024 has in store for us. Not forgetting the outakes!
26 Des 20231h 9min
#138 Awesome Astronomy December 2023 Pt1
This month we explore what might have happened to the Planet Theia after it hit the Earth, what Lucy saw on its first asteroid encounter, the mystery of a new double crater on the Moon and what the fi...
1 Des 20231h 15min
Astronomy Mythology of Wales
This month Jeni talks to Paul. No not our Paul Paul Cornish, planetarium and science outreach extraordinaire at Bristols We the Curious. They chat about one of our favourite topics on Awesome, conste...
19 Nov 202345min
