Hands on with Astro Pi
Recently, I was afforded the privilege of getting my hands on the first prototype of the Astro Pi board, and had a lesson from Dave Honess at Raspberry Pi in how to write code for it.
Education
It's dinner, but in space!
As you may well remember, earlier in the year we asked the children of Great Britain to design a meal that they thought British ESA astronaut Tim Peake would like to eat in space.
Rosetta’s Philae landing in a town near you!
If you have been following space activity over the last year you can’t have missed the story of Rosetta, the ambitious mission to chase, orbit and land a probe on the surface of a comet. To achieve this Rosetta has been …
Not long left to apply for our 'Space for All' funding scheme
The 6th Space for All funding round launched on 18 August and is currently open for applications until 9.00 on Monday 20 October.
How do you like them apples?
Last month we received a very fitting gift on behalf of Tim Peake.
An out-of-this-world Blue Peter competition
On 4 September, Blue Peter launched their competition for the children of the UK to design the mission patch for European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia mission to the International Space Station.