April 6, 2013Resources, Review Free Space Apps for Android There are plenty of space-related apps to check out in the Google Play store. I decided to download a bunch, play with […]
March 29, 2013Storify Soyuz to Station in record time – it’s ISS Expedition 35 TMA-08M took the latest ISS crew members up to the space station in record time. Usually it takes a couple of days […]
March 18, 2013Events, SpaceNomad It’s #ESAAurora! This is not my usual style of blog post, but I thought I’d have a play and try to capture some of […]
February 26, 2013Amazing Encounters, Opinion, Review Tim Peake Speaks! (At the British Interplanetary Society) It was a wet February evening as I set out to hear British astronaut Maj Timothy Peake address a packed house at […]
February 8, 2013Journalism, Opinion The time we took on Unilever – and won! It all started with this post in which I outlined why I thought the Lynx/Axe Space Academy competition was damagingly sexist. The […]
January 28, 2013Getting to space, Opinion Hey Lynx Apollo! Women are astronauts too If you know me, you probably know how much I want to go to space, so of course I was excited to […]
January 18, 2013Getting to space Send SpaceKate to space! Just 10 seconds is all it would take for you to help me get one step closer to space. There’s a competition […]
December 19, 2012Uncategorized A day for travelling I didn’t sleep too well last night, partly nerves about getting everything done in time, partly excitement at the idea of seeing […]
November 29, 2012Journalism Is Curiosity the key to life on Mars? It’s the ultimate detective story: The case of the missing molecules on Mars. But in this mystery it’s not Sherlock Holmes playing […]
October 26, 2012Amazing Encounters, Audio, Cool, Events Amazing Encounters: Apollo 16’s Charlie Duke Until last Saturday, the only thing that I associated with Pontefract in West Yorkshire, was the bitter liquorice “Pontefract cakes” that my […]