Amazing Encounters: Apollo 13’s Jim Lovell
Captain James “Jim” Lovell, a veteran of four space flights, was part the Apollo crew that flew closer to the Sun than […]
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Amazing Encounters: Valentina Tereshkova
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova – first woman in space, and only female to have done a solo spaceflight – was always going to […]
Amazing Encounters: Sergey Krikalev
Sergey Krikalev is a softly spoken, humble gentleman. Meeting him, you wouldn’t guess he’s been awarded the highest accolades of both the […]
Charlie Bolden’s Challenge
NASA Administrator Major General Charles Bolden was in London last week to receive an honorary fellowship from the Royal Aeronautical Society. Attending […]
Amazing Encounters – Apollo 13’s Fred Haise
You’ve seen the film, you know the dramatic story, but meeting one of the members of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission is […]
Gene Cernan: Last Man on the Moon – film review
A large bull fills the screen, then there’s a bucking bronco – not the sort you see at events, but a shot […]
Ken Mattingly – Apollo’s humble hero
“I would encourage you to understand that the people that made Apollo happen, are not here” says Ken Mattingly, self-effacingly. “There wasn’t […]
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 […]
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 […]