The GLXP is dead. Long live the GLXP!
*This post was written before the GLXP released new information about the prize deadline on 16th August 2017 – and is based […]
Category: Opinion
European astronaut Tim Peake returning to Earth
As Britain gets ready to welcome astronaut Tim Peake home from space, I can’t help be distracted by the heartbreaking news about MP […]
One giant leap for humankind, one giant leap backwards for equality
(Hastily written on tube journeys – forgive typos) This morning I’m full of conflicting emotions. So excited –so excited – that ESA […]
A Bad Week for Commercial Space
It’s been a tough week for commercial spaceflight. We know spaceflight is hard, but two stark reminders so close together really bring […]
Is US-Russian space co-operation at risk?
Today I was alerted via Twitter to the news that “all NASA contacts with Russian Government representatives are suspended, unless the activity […]
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 […]
Tim Peake – the politics and the possibilities
It was just a few months ago that I wrote about Maj Timothy Peake after he spoke at the British Interplanetary Society. […]
Letter to a Commander
In just less than 30 minutes time Colonel Chris Hadfield will handover the reins of the ISS to Russian Cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov. In […]
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 […]
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 […]