Q&A

America’s return to human spaceflight

Posted by on May 27, 2020 at 1:31 pm

If you know me (and even if you don’t) it’s pretty obvious that I like rocket launches, which is why today, 27th May, 2020 is an exciting day. If the weather cooperates, we’ll see the first commercial crew flight – with astronauts on board – to the International Space Station (ISS), and it’s launching at […]

Liquid water on Mars – does it deserve the fuss?

Posted by on September 29, 2015 at 12:33 pm

  It’s been an exciting 24 hours for the online (and indeed offline) space community – first there was the “Super Blood Moon”, where a lunar eclipse allowed the Moon take on an eerie deep red colour in the early hours of Monday morning, and then NASA revealed what its much-anticipated  big announcement trailed as […]

So you want to land on Mars?

Posted by on June 13, 2015 at 12:03 am

So you wanna land on Mars? Yeah – sounds good. Got any tips? Well first off: Good luck! What do you mean “good luck”? – we’re talking about rocket science aren’t we? Yeah, and if you spend any time with rocket scientists you’re going to hear someone say “space is hard”. That’s because it is. […]