Belinda Smith
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2,605 appearances
27 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Belinda Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Okay, so just unpacking this a bit, the clock on Apollo 12 after their mission would have been 560 microseconds ahead of the clock that remained on Earth.
Okay, let's go from crazy mind-bending physics to a slightly simpler question.
So this is from Amelie, who's five, and she wants to know why she can see the moon during the day even when the sun is out.
And she's been enjoying imagining the four Artemis astronauts flying through space back to Earth.
So while we need the sun to have daytime, the moon can be in the sky at any time of the day or night.
Yeah, it's not just a night object and we love that about it.
A question here from Beck who asks, how come we can't see the space junk satellites and space station in the pictures the crew are taking of Earth?
And even though there's a lot of satellites, they're small.
Yeah.
Now a question from Killian, who's aged eight, and he asks, why did they bother building Artemis when they already had the Saturn V rocket?
And also the Space Launch System is lighter and it produces more thrust, so it's more powerful by weight than what the Saturn V rocket was.
Slightly smaller as well.
More bang for your buck.
Okay, and a question now from Robert, and this is a fun one.
In one of the earlier episodes, you mentioned that moon launches are aimed to where the moon will be by the time it gets there.
Can we also send a vehicle across the solar system to meet the Earth in six months' time on the other side of the sun?
And finally, we've got this great question from Amber, and she wrote in with, Recently, I was sharing my excitement with a friend who surprised me by being slightly doubtful about the whole mission.
He didn't go as far as saying he doesn't believe we have landed on the moon.
However, he couldn't understand why we have taken so long to go back again, especially considering the huge progress that's occurred with technology over the past 50 years.
It was, you know, pretty soon after the Apollo missions that people kind of lost interest in going to the moon.
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