May 27, 2020Events, Getting to space, News, Q&A 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 […]
July 27, 2017Did you know?, Journalism, News Japan – the great space enabler? Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi may have made the mainstream media with his photos from the international space station some years ago, but […]
June 18, 2016Opinion 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 […]
September 20, 2015Amazing Encounters 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 […]
March 2, 2015Review Book Review: The Orbital Perspective by Ron Garan Genial astronaut Ron Garan reminds us to put away our cynicism and rekindle the “anything is possible” attitude we had as bright […]
April 3, 2014Opinion 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 […]
May 12, 2013Opinion 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 […]
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 […]
April 27, 2012Events, Opinion Welcome home! 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 […]
April 4, 2012Events, SpaceNomad, TweetUp ATV3 Docking and the ATVTweetUp In a fantastic trip for my SpaceNomad alter-ego, I was part of the lucky group invited by ESA and CNES (the French […]