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Dare to dream

Published on June 7, 2012 By SpaceKate

ISU co-founder Bob Richards welcomed us into the “Space Mafia” of SSP12 by  explaining that one of the reasons ISU was set up was to enable the founders to “meet the people we wanted to meet, to make the future we wanted to see”.  He talked about the culture of ISU: interdisciplinary, international and intercultural […]

A Summer of Space!

Published on June 3, 2012 By SpaceKate

  The next step of my #SpaceNomad adventure has begun and I find myself back in sunny Florida once more. In fact I was here just two weeks ago for the SpaceX launch, which sadly got delayed so I missed it. As you know by now, there aren’t many things that stand between me and […]

I’m going to space (university)!

Published on May 10, 2012 By SpaceKate

Just a quick post to let you know that I’ve gained a place on the International Space University summer programme this year, and will thus be spending nine weeks on the space coast in Florida learning everything from orbital mechanics to space policy. The summer programme counts as the first module for the ISU Space […]