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Why go into space?

Una McCormack, Dr Ghina M. Halabi, Avi Loeb and Timothy Peacock talk to Chris Harding about the history, culture and science of space exploration.

From Cold War triumphalism to wanting to secure the future of humanity, people have given many reasons for wanting to go into space. Christopher Harding is joined by a historian, a science fiction writer, a scientist and a visionary to unpick some of those reasons, and ask what they tell us about technology, society and utopia.

With Dr Ghina M. Halabi, Timothy Peacock, Una McCormack and Avi Loeb.

Producer: Luke Mulhall

You can hear more from Timothy Peacock, who teaches at the University of Glagow, in an episode of the Arts & Ideas podcast called New Thinking: From life on Mars to space junk

Una McCormack has contributed to Free Thinking episodes discussing Time, Star Trek, Quatermass, Dystopian Thinking, Asimov. https://unamccormack.co.uk/

Avi Loeb has written Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth

Dr Ghina M. Halabi spent 13 years working on astrophysics research before becoming a consultant http://www.ghina.co.uk/

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Wed 20 Sep 2023 22:00

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