America’s return to human spaceflight
If you know me (and even if you don’t) it’s pretty obvious that I like rocket launches, which is why today, 27th […]
Category: Events
Apollo50 at Goonhilly Earth Station
The 50th anniversary of the first human footsteps on the Moon seemed like a good thing to celebrate, and without the time/budget […]
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 […]
ESA’s Rosetta Mission is Making History
Today is a day we make history. After a ten year journey to comet 67P Churyumov-Grasimenko, the Rosetta spacecraft said goodbye to […]
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 […]
Talkin’ ‘bout my (space) generation
The space generation – those us of born after the beginning of the space age – have our very own organisation – […]
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 […]
SKYLON – the answer to UK space dreams?
It’s like this: I would LOVE the UK to have a human spaceflight programme. I would LOVE the UK to lead the […]
Rosetta’s Awake!
Do you have trouble waking up in the morning when your alarm goes off? Me too, but today I don’t feel so […]