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Wales Online
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Beyond Paradise season 3 episode 6 cast as familiar face returns for finale
Beyond Paradise season 3 episode 6 cast as familiar face returns for finale A familiar face is back in Beyond Paradise and he becomes a suspect in the latest missing person case. Humphrey Goodman and Esther Williams are on a new case Beyond Paradise returns to BBC One for its final episode of season three and it sees Josh Woods make a comeback. When nurse Lucy vanishes on her way to work, suspicion immediately falls on Josh. However, after Josh receives a worrying voicemail, the team suspects something more sinister has happened. In the recording, Lucy is heard shouting "devil" and there is a beastly growl. Familiar with the legend of the Devil's Hump, there are fears it could hold a clue. As the investigation continues, Humphrey Goodman (played by Kris Marshall) finds himself torn between his personal and professional life. He and Martha Lloyd (Sally Bretton) are preparing to throw Rosie (Bella Rei Blue Stevenson) the perfect party for her birthday. The finale welcomes back all the main cast, including DS Esther Williams (Zahra Ahmadi) and PC Kelby Hartford (Dylan Llewellyn). Here is all you need to know about the guest stars joining the final episode. Chris Jenks plays Josh Woods in Beyond Paradise Article continues below Josh Woods - Chris Jenks Troublemaker Josh, who is Kelby's rival, is played by Chris Jenks - a 36-year-old actor and producer. The star is known for his roles as Callum Barker in Vigil and Steve Morley in Sex Education. He also played Jamie in the series The Athena. Lucy - Eva Feiler Nurse Lucy is played by Eva Feiler, a British stage, screen and voice actress. She played a young Margaret Thatcher in The Crown and Joselyn O'Donnell in Father Brown. Hannah Owen - Amalia Vitale Rosie's social worker Hannah is played by Amalia Vitale, a 36-year-old actress from Devon. She played Anya in Big Mood and has starred in Endeavour and Midsomer Murders. Murray McArthur plays Trent Morgan Trent Morgan - Murray McArthur Trent, is involved in the police investigation, is played by Murray McArthur - a 58-year-old English actor. He has previously starred in Game of Thrones, The Northman and Netflix's Wednesday. Steve Banley - Dean Nolan Steve, who is known by Trent, is played by Dean Nolan - a married father-of-three and actor. He had a small role in the recently released Snow White film, as well as guest roles in House of the Dragon, The Great and The Regime. Cathy Morgan - Sarah Bennett-Green Trent's mother Cathy is played by Sarah Bennett-Green, a Welsh actress and writer. Her only known credit so far is Beyond Paradise. Beyond Paradise airs on BBC One on Fridays at 8pm Article continues below
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Athena spacecraft lands on moon 100 miles from south pole after tense descent
The Athena robotic spacecraft has touched down on the lunar surface in the second moon landing for the US space company Intuitive Machines in little more than a year. The nearly 5-metre-tall probe set down shortly after 5.30pm UK time on Thursday after a tense descent to Mons Mouton, a high and relatively flat mountain about 100 miles from the moon's south pole. But while Athena sent back data and began to charge its batteries on the surface, flight controllers struggled to confirm the lander's status and its orientation on the rugged terrain. As engineers in Houston peered at the lander's data for clues, Tim Crain, the mission director, urged his team to 'keep working the problem', an acknowledgment that all was not well. 'We're shedding power as fast as we can to keep the vehicle in good health. We are generating power. We are communicating through our telemetry radio, and we are working to evaluate exactly what our orientation is on the surface,' he said. The company's Odysseus spacecraft became the first private mission to reach the moon in February 2024, but the probe skidded across the surface, broke a leg and toppled over. Athena has the same tall, thin design that some experts fear makes it prone to falling over. Athena is one of 10 missions contracted by Nasa's $2.6bn commercial lunar payload services (CLPS) programme to encourage private industry to fly experiments and other equipment to the moon in advance of humans returning before the end of the decade. Under Nasa's Artemis programme, the US intends to put the first woman and the first person of colour on the moon in mid-2027. On Sunday, another robotic lander funded by CLPS touched down on the moon in the most successful private landing yet. Built and operated by Firefly Aerospace, also in Texas, the Blue Ghost lander settled in Mare Crisium, a 300-mile-wide impact basin filled with frozen lava. The Athena probe is thought to have landed closer to the south pole than any previous lunar mission. The south pole is attractive for human exploration as its permanently shaded craters harbour frozen water that would be crucial for visiting astronauts. One of Athena's key objectives is to deploy Nasa's Trident drill to dig beneath the moon's surface. Any soil it excavates will be analysed by a mass spectrometer to detect essential constituents such as water. The lander carries three robotic rovers, the largest being the mobile autonomous prospecting platform, or Mapp, which holds equipment from Nokia to test a cellular network on the moon. It is intended to allow communications between the lander, the rover and a rocket-fuelled drone called Grace, which is designed to fly into a shaded crater and take measurements. But all depends on whether the lander is operational. If Athena is working properly, it may join Blue Ghost in witnessing a lunar eclipse as the Earth moves between the moon and the sun on 14 March. Days later, the sun will set on the moon and both probes will shut down. Nasa is preparing to launch two missions from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The SPHEREx and Punch spacecraft are due to blast off on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 3.09am UK time on Saturday. The Punch mission will deploy four suitcase-sized satellites to map the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, to understand the solar wind, the stream of plasma that flows from our parent star. Meanwhile, SPHEREx will observe hundreds of millions of galaxies and other objects to create an infrared map of the cosmos. Armed with the map, astronomers hope to learn about the origins of water and other ingredients for life in the Milky Way and answer questions about the large-scale structure of the universe, which expanded a trillion trillion times in a fraction of a second after the big bang.
