April 2012 – Spacekate

Did you know? UK celebrates 50 years in space

In the past few years we’ve celebrated 50 years since the first person, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, made it to space, 50 […]

I’m letting out a big sigh of relief. There’s a tear in my eye. I’m an emotional wreck! Anton is home. Back […]

So here’s a sentence I never thought I’d honestly be able to write, and it’s not meant to sound boastful or anything, […]

On Wednesday afternoon I heard that all my work over the past year and a half, was lost. Everything on spacekate.com/ was […]

It’s Yuri’s Night 2012. My third Yuri’s Night since that fateful day when Dr Chris McKay gave me my treasured NASA pin badge and […]

In a fantastic trip for my SpaceNomad alter-ego, I was part of the lucky group invited by ESA and CNES (the French […]

I’m grinning from ear to ear. As I type this, cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Konenenko are engaged in a Russian […]

I’ve been thinking for a long while that I should write reviews of different space centres and museums, and my visit […]