Jacob Bleacher: Podcast Interviews

Jacob Bleacher, PhD

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Astronaut, Earth scientist

2 Interviews

Jacob Bleacher's Interviews

Stephen Sackur & Jacob Bleacher • 04 Nov 2020 • EN

Jacob Bleacher: Putting astronauts back on the moon

Scientists have discovered water on the sunlit surface of the Moon for the first time. Does it matter? Well, maybe it does. The Moon is back in vogue in terms of space exploration – the US says it will put astronauts back on the lunar surface by 2024. It is supposed to be the precursor to a manned mission to Mars. Step

Alexander McNamara & Jacob Bleacher • 06 Jul 2020 • EN

Dr Jacob Bleacher: Why do we need to go back to the Moon?

In 1969, Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to walk on the Moon, a feat over the next three and a half years only 10 other space explorers would go on to achieve. Now it has taken nearly 50 years, but NASA once again has ambitions to land the first woman and the next man on th