it was skippered from a base in eastern england and the mission was part funded by the european space agencyfinally, how handy would it be to have a chameleon tongue like a robot snatcher to reach all those far—away objects? this robot has been developed by a tea m robot has been developed by a team to help collect items without getting too close. the tongue works fast and can snatch up to 30 grams in up to 600 milliseconds. i want to share with you a fact that i hadn't fully understood until i met climate scientist ed hawkins last year. now, i'd known that our weather was getting worse and our sea levels were rising, and i'd known that global warming was happening because we were emitting carbon dioxide and methane into the air at a runaway rate, but what i hadn't fully understood is this —

school at 16, joined the military, the man flying in march is a civil aviation pilot — all the european space agencystronauts, the european space agency will have another astronaut this year, so there is another opportunity for some people a go. but the young people listening, as well as one day perhaps being an astronaut, there are many, many jobs perhaps being an astronaut, there are many, manyjobs that support these astronauts. they are just the tip of the iceberg. thousands of jobs here in the uk, tens of thousands ofjobs, jobs here in the uk, tens of thousands of jobs, many jobs here in the uk, tens of thousands ofjobs, many similar numbers around the world. so there are lots of ways to be a part of this. even with the advent of this terrorism for which there are tickets available now, i say to young people and i really say to young people and i really say to young people and i really say to young people that if they start saving now, they may one day be able to buy a ticket to go into space which is the era of commercialisation that we are seeing here with spacex. so, young people, space might

change the way that space is financed, it will bring down the cost, and it will allow space agencies like nasa in the european a part of through the uk space agency, and to focus our efforts on returning humans to the moon and to mars, and all the challenges, knowledge and excitement that they will bring us. libby, will it mean that civilians can travel into space in the near future? yes, i think we've already got tom cruise in discussions with nasa to fly in the future. so you have to have very deep pockets, but the prices will come down. we are also seeing opportunities in suborbital tourism. so a spacecraft will be going through space, but other people are allowing people to buy to get there. you will also see other countries around the world, who perhaps today haven't been able to bea who perhaps today haven't been able to be a part of these missions buying tickets, so they can have their own national head into space. and as we've seen with the tmp commission back in 2015 here in the uk -- tim commission back in 2015 here in the uk —— tim pique, sending people into space can be hugely influential. and all

going to be human is returning to the men, an international partnership with nasa and the european space agencyll play a spa, those are also going to be in partnership with commercial players. he in the uk, we have a company that is looking at providing a commercial service around the men for may be communications and that will help the science missions. understanding the science missions. understanding the men helps us understand where the men helps us understand where the earth came from and how it is involved, so there is a great commercial opportunity out there and with all of these missions as we head further out into the social system. thank you both so much for being with us for this genuinely historic moment and wonderful that there is such good news for the news that bob behnken and doug hurley are both safely back on planet earth after their 21 hour journey both safely back on planet earth after their 21 hourjourney on the spacex craft, a new year in space exploration has perhaps opened up, certainly in the commercial expectation of travelling into space. you're watching bbc news. and

vessel was skippered from a base in eastern england and the mission was part funded by the european space agencyve a chameleon tongue—like snatcher to reach all those far away objects? this robot has been developed by a team at seoultech to help collect items without getting too close. the tongue works fast and can snatch up to 30g from 80cm away in under 600 milliseconds. i want to share with you a fact that i hadn't fully understood until i met climate scientist ed hawkins last year. now i'd known our weather was getting worse and our sea levels were rising and i'd known that global warming was happening because we are emitting carbon dioxide and methane into the air at a runaway rate. what i hadn't fully understood is this. simply reducing greenhouse gas emissions will not bring global warming under control. in order to stop global warming, we need to do something very drastic indeed. if we end up in a world where our emissions are net zero, we're not increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere any more — that will stabilise global temperatures at the point at which we do that.

four interview this weeeek our speciaial guests thee french aerospace engineer pilots and european space agency astronaut. thomas press gay who's to be the first european to fly on board the new space x. dragon to which it yoyou to take e off from. cape cacanaveral inn florida in the spring o of twenty twenty o one time of p penn state t thankou for being with u us it's great o have y you on from twenty four. right of first question to pretty simple one. he spent six and a half months in space- between november twenty seventeen in june. november twenty s sixteen and junune twey seseventeen are you excited to e going back- yes i'm excited i've i've misissed the t thrillf being- on board the international space station to view is braced taking the- and just- the general atmosphere- the teamwork. the camaraderie- and a feeling of belonging to you know say mission having the same goal- i've been missing all this over the last few years- so i've couldn't be more excited. to go back now if i'm not mistaken the first time round you had a seven year training program this time round seems to go a lot qu

into next year, the second flight will again have four people, including one from the european space agencyeady expecting them to pick up into operational flights, which will be fantastic, because we'll see the international space station get back up just to be filled six people who are usually on board, but to seven, which means we'll be able to do even more science, which is the point of the international space station, so we'll have a full crew again and lots of science been carried out. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav. sunshine and showers, many southern areas staying dry altogether, but you will notice it is fresher than what it was yesterday. this evening and overnight most of the showers will die away and lengthy clear skies and light winds with a cooler air mass, a chi night to come with single figure values in the north, double figures further south. on monday, similar to the weekend with sunshine and showers. showers had the across northern and eastern parts of england into the afternoon with the odd thundery one mixed in for as well. top temperature is 20-22 c,

safely on the opportunities that this opens up now, commercial travel, for enabling space agencies like nasa and the europeann itself, its quite extraordinary what process it goes through to land in the ocean. it is quite a bumpy ride. you have to go from 17 point 5000 miles an hour, 400 kilometres up, where they are orbiting the earth, back down to that gentle splashdown. the process from when they fired their rocket engines to slow themselves down and plunge into the atmosphere took about an hour. it is a gentler ride down than the solid thump of landing on earth, which is what astronauts including tim peake had been doing in the russian spacecraft. but it is still a wild ride through. but the weather looked perfect. it would have been a very gentle splashdown. there wasn't too much bumping around on the water. i know the crew, bob and doug, they had sick bagsjust in case there was any swell and they fell a bit sick afterwards but it looked like it was a pretty soft landing, that the challenges came afterwards. what i love about it is with these new private endeavours, parts of the capsule at least will be

the european space agency put up a new satellite a couple of years ago, which, we passed them to takemetres, this satellite is higher resolution with ten metres per pixel which means that you can see smaller colonies, so we get better understanding of what is out there in antarctica. these small populations that are vulnerable, can they be helped or protected in any way? that is one of the sad things about the plight of the emperor penguins. what they face is a global problem. climate change is a global problem. climate change is a global problem. it is down to all of us around the world. when we, when we won the atmosphere it affects all parts of the world, notjust the antarctic. we cannot put the sea ice pack, if it melts, and we cannot locally change the climate, to make it colder. if it gets warm in antarctica, then we are going to affect all of the wildlife and the ecosystems, in that very remote and unique part of the world. doctor peter fretwell, from the british antarctic survey, thank you very much indeed. the british government has announced details for the commemoration of

space agency and all this, libby? what is your organisation hoping will be achieved, or potentially will be opened up by the success of this? well, we'll be looking forward to seeing a europeanastronauts in the years to come. the french asked has already been confirmed to fly on the second fully operational flight next year —— french astronaut. in years to come, we hope temp equal fly on one these. the wider... as we see businesses here in the uk take advantage of —— tim pique. space is something that underpins our everyday lives, and there's a lot of technology that uses there's a lot of technology that uses things like global navigation systems, telecommunications, the weather, earth observation looking at data that tells us all about the things that are going on down here on earth — all of that has become commercial and, to do things in space, to develop new materials or new pharmaceuticals, these kinds of things — this is what the commercial chapter will enable uk companies to do. could be conceivably see at some point vehicles of this kind, perhaps this one or the boeing one, or others launching from uk soil? we are looking at things launching from the uk, the uk govern