No, it’s not top brass at Auntie baring their bottoms to cameras up and down the land, the Moon Season is all about celebrating 40 years since Buzz and Neil took those first steps by any human on the moon’s surface. Granted, we’ve done sweet fru-fru since in terms of landing on planets, but that iconic moment is still, erm, very iconic. So what’s on in this Moon Season? Have a look after the jump…

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The season is a month-long affair, with programming strewn across both BBC Two an BBC Four. The centrepiece of the whole thing, the BBC tell us, is James May On The Moon, which sees the presenter take on a personal voyage to fulfil his lifelong dream of flying to the edge of space. Along the way, he meets some astronauts who give their own personal accounts of what it is like to fly to the Moon.

So that sounds like fun, because pretty much whatever James May does is fun, whether he likes it or not. Quietly, he’s becoming the most watchable out of the Top Gear Holy Trinity of presenter, and that’s a far cry from him moaning a while back about being the least popular. That one’s on BBC Two.

Then there’s James May At The Edge Of Space, which strives to find out more about James’s intergalactic journey. You’d be forgiven for thinking that, so far, the season has nothing other than programmes presented by James May, but there is other stuff. Promise. There are, however, no details of other stuff just yet, but the Beeb also say that it will be doing loads of online stuff and some stuff on the radio.

Look out for it later this month and into July.