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America’s return to human spaceflight

Published on May 27, 2020 By SpaceKate

If you know me (and even if you don’t) it’s pretty obvious that I like rocket launches, which is why today, 27th May, 2020 is an exciting day. If the weather cooperates, we’ll see the first commercial crew flight – with astronauts on board – to the International Space Station (ISS), and it’s launching at […]

Liquid water on Mars – does it deserve the fuss?

Published on September 29, 2015 By SpaceKate

  It’s been an exciting 24 hours for the online (and indeed offline) space community – first there was the “Super Blood Moon”, where a lunar eclipse allowed the Moon take on an eerie deep red colour in the early hours of Monday morning, and then NASA revealed what its much-anticipated  big announcement trailed as […]

Charlie Bolden’s Challenge

Published on June 22, 2015 By SpaceKate

NASA Administrator Major General Charles Bolden was in London last week to receive an honorary fellowship from the Royal Aeronautical Society. Attending the lecture that accompanied the award I knew to expect inspirational words – eloquently spoken – with glimpses of the personal reasons that NASA’s mission is so important to him. There would be […]

So you want to land on Mars?

Published on June 13, 2015 By SpaceKate

So you wanna land on Mars? Yeah – sounds good. Got any tips? Well first off: Good luck! What do you mean “good luck”? – we’re talking about rocket science aren’t we? Yeah, and if you spend any time with rocket scientists you’re going to hear someone say “space is hard”. That’s because it is. […]