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The cultural significance of space exploration

Posted by: Andrew Kuh, Posted on: 14 January 2015 - Categories: 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.

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It's dinner, but in space!

Posted by: Libby Jackson, Posted on: 19 November 2014 - Categories: Education, Events

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.

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Rosetta’s Philae landing in a town near you!

Posted by: Madeleine Russell, Posted on: 11 November 2014 - Categories: Education, Events, Space exploration

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 …

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Not long left to apply for our 'Space for All' funding scheme

Posted by: Hannah Garrett, Posted on: 16 October 2014 - Categories: Education, Funding

...currently broadcasting at 15.30 on Mondays on the FunKids Digital Radio website and on DAB Digital Radio in London and the South East. Podcasts can be downloaded from the website...

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How do you like them apples?

Posted by: Libby Jackson, Posted on: 9 October 2014 - Categories: Education, Space exploration
Jannette Warrener, Custodian of Woolsthorpe Manor, Jeremy Curtis, Head of Education at the UK Space Agency and TV personality Dallas Campbell.

Last month we received a very fitting gift on behalf of Tim Peake.

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Take part in "Tweet the Expert" for World Space Week

Posted by: Steven Watson, Posted on: 1 October 2014 - Categories: Digital communications, Events
Tweet the expert 2014 logo

If you have ever wanted to chat to an astronaut, find out what it’s like to chase a comet or simply ask how space research benefits us, then tune in to one of our ‘tweet the expert’ sessions.

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Exhibiting at the International Astronautical Congress

Posted by: Madeleine Russell, Posted on: 17 September 2014 - Categories: Events

...Space Propulsion Star Dundee If you’re planning on attending the IAC in Toronto please do stop by the UK pavilion, stand numbers 309 and 508. I shall look forward to...

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An out-of-this-world Blue Peter competition

Posted by: Libby Jackson, Posted on: 15 September 2014 - Categories: Education
Image of a selection of mission patches

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.

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Research in space and the ageing population

Posted by: Andrew Kuh, Posted on: 12 September 2014 - Categories: Space exploration
Image of bedrest volunteers.

Some of the most common questions we hear at the Agency are, "What benefit does space exploration actually have? What’s the point of sending people into space when we’ve so many problems here on Earth to sort out?"

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