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13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II

Artemis II, Nasa鈥檚 mission to loop around the Moon

Artemis and the return to the Moon. The 麻豆社鈥檚 space podcast will be following the Artemis II mission every day for two weeks. Nasa plans to return to the Moon for the first time in more than half a century and the next step is Artemis II. The mission aims to send four astronauts 鈥� on a spacecraft called Orion - to loop around the Moon. They plan to go further from Earth than any human in history. The story of Artemis II will be told by space scientist, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, and British astronaut, Tim Peake, and US space journalist Kristin Fisher. The last crewed mission to The Moon was Apollo 17 in 1972.
Orion鈥檚 crew is scheduled to be: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen.
13 Minutes is the 麻豆社鈥檚 space podcast, telling epic space stories. It鈥檚 produced by the 麻豆社 Audio Science Unit for the 麻豆社 World Service.
Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music.

27 minutes

Last on

Sat 11 Apr 2026 17:32GMT

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  • Sat 11 Apr 2026 17:32GMT

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