Opinion

Welcome home!

Posted by on April 27, 2012 at 1:39 pm

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 on Earth. I watched his and his Soyuz crew undock from the international space station this morning, conduct their deorbit burn a couple of hours later, and just over half an hour ago, […]

Space is real

Posted by on April 27, 2012 at 1:37 am

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, but… I know a cosmonaut, and he’s currently in space. I am even lucky enough to be on his “friends and family” list, which means that while he’s been in space, I’ve been […]

Dear Science Museum… don't hide the star exhibit

Posted by on April 28, 2011 at 7:47 pm

I love the Science Museum in London. I always have, whether it was because it had lots of buttons to press as a child, because I learned they house Watson and Crick’s original model of the DNA double helix when I was thinking of studying genetics, or because they have adults-only evenings with interesting talks. I love it. […]

My first shuttle launch – there are no words

Posted by on March 13, 2011 at 2:04 pm

  Yesterday I watched shuttle Discovery land for the final time, and I realised that I’ve not yet posted a piece here about the launch. I wrote a piece for the National Geographic Assignment Blog, but it wasn’t all that easy to do. How could I find words to explain launch day? I’m still struggling if […]