Neil: I'm Neil.
Georgie: And I'm Georgie.
'That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind' – famous words,
but do you know who said them?
Neil: Of course - that was Neil Armstrong,
the first person to land on the Moon.
Georgie: Right, the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed Neil Armstrong
on the Moon on the 20th of July 1969.
But in decades after that famous event,
interest in returning to the Moon faded away... until now.
Neil: Summer 2023 saw the start of a new race for the Moon
between Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft and India's Chandrayaan-3.
Russia's rocket crashed on landing,
but Chandrayaan-3 successfully touched down on the 23rd of August,
making India only the fourth country to successfully land on the Moon.
Georgie: But why this sudden interest in going back to the Moon?
That's what we'll be discussing in this programme and, as usual,
we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary too.
Neil: But before we blast off, I have a question for you, Georgie.