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Scouts speak to astronauts aboard the International Space Station

Scouts speak to astronauts aboard the International Space Station

Thanks to funding from the UK Space Agency, more than 100 Scouts had the rare opportunity to host a live Q&A session with a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, gaining first-hand insight into life in orbit.

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Research in space and the ageing population

Andrew Kuh, 12 September 2014 - Space exploration

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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