Guardian Live presents a Science Weekly Extra: Pluto and beyond - podcast

In July, after travelling for 3bn miles and nine and a half years, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, giving us our first ever glimpse of the dwarf planet. What else is in store during this exciting year of space exploration?

This special edition of Science Weekly is a recording of our Guardian Live event 'New Horizons - Pluto and beyond' which took place in London on Monday 21 September. To become a Guardian member and to find out more about all our events go to our member site.

Guardian science correspondent was joined by an expert panel of scientists, including Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Andrew Coates, Kevin Fong and Monica Grady, to discuss the latest findings from the Rosetta mission and to ask what's next for New Horizons and other groundbreaking missions planned for the coming decade. And as Major Tim Peake, the first official British astronaut, prepares for his five-month mission to the International Space Station, the panel will discuss the future of human spaceflight.

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