Europe leads the space station

ESA astronaut and soon to be Commander of the International Space Station, Samantha Cristoforetti, talks Dragons, Star City, and preparing for leadership. We hear from meteor expert Richard Greenwood on how Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission has returned "the most important extra-terrestrial samples ever collected" - rocks from the very start of the solar system. And journalist Kate Arkless Gray describes a decade of space journalism and how to make friends with the head of NASA... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists