Philip Boucher Hayes
speaker
3,375 appearances
85 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Philip Boucher Hayes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 85 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 58.
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Thank you very much.
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Let us turn first to that eye-catching headline in a lot of your papers this morning or online anyway.
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This stray piece of a SpaceX rocket hurtling towards the moon is thought to have made impact.
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The crash, which was due to occur at around about half seven this morning, will be confirmed later by telescopes monitoring the event.
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The school bus-sized object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace toward the moon in January of 2025.
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In a statement last night, NASA spokesperson Jimmy Russell said the collision posed no danger to Earth.
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That's a relief, isn't it?
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I'm joined by Niamh Shaw on the line now, who is a science communicator specialising in space.
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Niamh, good morning.
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Tell us, what do you think went wrong here?
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This sounds like a slightly complicated way of saying litter.
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I was reading that in the 1970s, the United States, as a part of its space programme, deliberately targeted the moon with rockets, if you like, to see what the seismic impact was going to be.
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So we would have some idea what the consequences of this bus-sized piece of litter crash landing onto the moon is going to be.
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Well, what is the view within the science community of SpaceX?
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Because you have five of these Falcon rockets have exploded either before or on takeoff, which is a rate of attrition that NASA would never have been able to put up with.
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You have a lot of near Earth activity.
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orbit litter from their Starlink enterprise, the profitable end of the SpaceX arm, and now you have litter, huge chunks of it, being dumped on the moon.
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Are they messy operators?
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Are they regarded as messy operators, I mean?
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But hang on a second, Niamh, because one space shuttle exploded and NASA's space programme was indefinitely suspended and almost ended as a consequence.
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