SpaceKate On a Mission

Well, okay, so it is not quite the same as getting all of me into space, but I was alerted to the existence of NASA’s “Face in Space” initiative. This allows you to upload a photograph of yourself that will then go up with the next shuttle and once it’s flown you can print off [...]

Right then, this is real, so instead of just wildly claiming that I want to get up into space, I have to start having a look at what the options are. This is all going to be a learning process, as I go along I aim to learn a lot more about each of these [...]

I’ve been watching the International Space Station flying over my garden in London over the last few months. I used it as an excuse to try and learn how to use my camera to take photographs at night. There are a few of the results in my Flickr stream – some are quite nice. I [...]

This is the closest that I’ve ever got to space, although really, it wasn’t me, it was a high altitude balloon. I did pack the camera in polystyrene so that it could go up there though – does that count?   Read more about how I got to take this photo on radiokate.com

Okay. It’s time to take the plunge. It’s time to stop talking, and start doing. This whole endeavour might be completely insane. You might just take one look and thing that I’ve lost the plot. You could be right. The thing is, that somehow, and I really don’t quite know how, but I tend to [...]