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An out-of-this-world Blue Peter competition

Libby Jackson, 15 September 2014 - Education

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.

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?"