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Happy 43rd birthday ESA!
Happy 43rd birthday ESA!
Today marks 43 years since the European Space Agency (ESA) was established. Happy birthday ESA!
Plants in space: success at the Chelsea Flower Show
Last week, we celebrated the launch of Rocket Science; an educational project sending salad seeds to space and back. Give your local school the opportunity to grow these 'space seeds' in a national science experiment.
Into gardening? We're at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show!
We can't wait to exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower show next week and we want you to tell us which of the following plants you would take to space.
Happy Birthday Hubble!
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched 24th April 1990 and has beamed thousands of images back to Earth, unveiling many mysteries of astronomy.
How to 'Make That Call': #TalkToTim on the ISS
Tim Peake has recently issued the challenge to schools and other organisations to ‘Make That Call’ to him in space, using the amateur radio on board the ISS. But what is this amateur radio, and how does it work?
Fast ice: image of the week
This combined image of scans taken by Sentinel-1A’s radar shows the fast-moving Pine Island glacier, which flowed about 100 m in less than 2 weeks (in pink). Light blue represents stable ice on either side of the stream. Pine Island …
Bringing space down to Earth: the Big Bang Fair 2015
This week I’ll be meeting my fifth astronaut - if you count walking past Chris Hadfield on a zebra crossing as ‘meeting’. This isn’t actually the thing I’m most excited about this week. Jean-Francois Clervoy an ESA shuttle astronaut will …
Register now: UK Space Conference 2015
Get a sneak peak into what to expect from this year's UK space conference and register now for your early bird ticket.
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.
The cultural significance of space exploration
Because I am an awful nerd, last week I compiled a playlist of space-themed jazz to listen to on my drive to work at the UK Space Agency – Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Hancock.
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.