The Engineers: Lunar exploration

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Humans are returning to the moon for the first time in over 50 years. The multi-national mission is called Artemis and involves the most powerful rocket and capable spacecraft ever built, a space station in lunar orbit, and a permanent moon-base on the surface. It is planned as a staging post in the human exploration of Mars. At a special event at the Royal Geographical Society in London, Dr Kevin Fong speaks to three of the world-leading engineers from the US, Italy and the UK who are making this possible: Howard Hu, Orion programme manager at Nasa, Sara Pastor, chief engineer at the ESA Ihab Gateway, Libby Jackson, head of exploration at the UK Space Agency Producer: Charlie Taylor The Engineers is staged in partnership with the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. (Photo: Nasa's Orion spacecraft flies past the Moon. Credit: Nasa)