BBC Radio Podcasts from 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
13 Minutes to the Moon: Trailer, T-minus 4
The countdown begins
13 Minutes to the Moon: Trailer, T-minus 3
Introducing 13 Minutes to the Moon, with an Apollo astronaut and former NASA engineer
13 Minutes to the Moon: Trailer, T-minus 2
Hans Zimmer has composed the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. It’s his first podcast
13 Minutes to the Moon: Trailer, T-minus 1
The final part of our audio countdown. Lift off is on 13 May 2019
13 Minutes to the Moon: 1. ‘We choose to go’, Apollo 11
How Cold War rivalry fuelled Nasa’s race to land the first astronaut on the Moon
13 Minutes to the Moon: 2. Kids in control
The Moon landing is threatened when an alarm goes off. Can Nasa save the spaceflight?
13 Minutes to the Moon: 3. Long Island Eagle
The extraordinary story of the Eagle spacecraft that landed astronauts on the Moon
13 Minutes to the Moon: 4. Fire to the Phoenix
Nasa’s ambitions of a Moon landing are threatened by a deadly launchpad inferno
13 Minutes to the Moon: 5. The fourth astronaut
How a briefcase-sized computer pioneered space tech for the first Moon landing
13 Minutes to the Moon: 6. Saving 1968
Nasa astronauts circle the Moon as America is rocked by war, assassinations and riots
13 Minutes to the Moon: 7. Michael Collins: The third man
The story of Michael Collins, the third Apollo astronaut in Nasa’s historic spaceflight
13 Minutes to the Moon: 8. ‘We’re go for powered descent’
The final 13-minute descent to the Moon begins, and it’s all going wrong for Apollo 11
13 Minutes to the Moon: 9. Tranquility Base
Apollo 11’s mission is on the edge of failure, minutes away from the Moon landing
13 Minutes to the Moon: 10. ‘For all mankind’
The epic story of the final 13 minutes of the Apollo Moon landing
13 Minutes to the Moon: 11. The 13 minutes
Nasa archive audio of the astronauts as they make the historic Moon landing
13 Minutes to the Moon: 12. Live from Houston
Ffity years after the Moon landing, space experts consider a return to the lunar surface
13 Minutes to the Moon: Bonus - The making of the music
A special episode with award winning composer, Hans Zimmer, talking about music and space
Apollo 13: Trailer, The Countdown
Jump on-board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story
Apollo 13: 1. Time bomb
Nasa’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon almost ends in tragedy
Apollo 13: 2. Death of the Odyssey
Mission control scrambles to diagnose disaster. The astronauts face desperate action
Apollo 13: 3. Lifeboat
The Apollo astronauts escape to the lunar module. Can Nasa help the space crew survive?
Apollo 13: 4. Power brokers
The astronauts freeze in darkness. Can Nasa find a way to bring them to Earth safely?
Apollo 13: 5. Life support
Nasa help Apollo 13’s cold, exhausted crew survive deadly CO2 levels in the spacecraft
Apollo 13: Bonus 1. Jim Lovell
Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell talks to Kevin Fong about the doomed Nasa mission
Apollo 13: 6. Earth in view
Apollo 13 goes off course. With no computer, the astronauts rely on their flying skills
Apollo 13: Bonus 2. John Aaron
Nasa flight controller John Aaron talks to Kevin Fong about the ill-fated Apollo mission
Apollo 13: 7. Resurrection
Can the Apollo 13 astronauts survive the dangers of re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere?
Introducing: The Space Shuttle
To launch like a rocket and land like a plane. The space shuttle: A dream became reality
The Space Shuttle: 1. The spaceplane
Can Nasa build the most complex flying machine in space history?
The Space Shuttle: 2. The greatest test flight
The astronauts count down to flying a brand-new spacecraft for the very first time
The Space Shuttle: 3. Glass rocket
Columbia reaches orbit but the shuttle has been damaged – can they make it home safely?
The Space Shuttle: 4. The 35 new guys
Nasa recruits women and ethnic minorities as astronauts for the first time
The Space Shuttle: 5. Space truck
President Reagan declares the shuttle open for business. Then a satellite goes missing