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Artemis II: Never, ever, ever talk about rockets and astronauts So, we’re flying humans around the moon and bringing them back. But why are we doing it? To build a strategic outpost? To play power games? To do science? And if it's science, isn’t the useful value of resources on the moon a bit opaque? For example
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So, we’re flying humans around the moon and bringing them back. But why are we doing it? To build a strategic outpost? To play power games? To do science? And if it's science, isn’t the useful value of resources on the moon a bit opaque? For example, why do we need to mine helium-3 when we can produce it on earth? More problematic, if you’re investing billions of dollars in putting sensitive instruments on the moon and you’ve got good access to light and frozen water, what happens when somebody else comes along and says: “I’d quite like a bit of that as well please”? How quickly does astropolitics become geopolitics?
Join Alice and her guests, Libby Jackson, Head of Space at the Science Museum and Ian Annett, Chair UKSpace Launch Committee, as they debate the value of Artemis II and celebrate the idea of being driven to push boundaries. “We’re human, what can we do?”
Contributors:
Alice Bunn, President of UKspace
Dr Alice Bunn OBE FIMechE FRAeS CEng | LinkedIn
UKspace: Overview | LinkedIn
Ian Annett, Chair UKSpace Launch Committee
Ian Annett | LinkedIn
Libby Jackson OBE FRAeS, Head of Space, the Science Museum
Libby Jackson OBE FRAeS | LinkedIn
Key topics covered:
Artemis IIApollo missionsMining on the moonAstropoliticsCollaboration in spaceCost of commercial launchesSecurity in spaceThe lunar economyMars missionsUnderstanding evolutionKerosene alternatives Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Erscheinungsdatum: 9.4.2026, 07:00:00
