My Top 5 Mission Patches of All Time
- 19th Jun 2025
- Author: Chloe Hopkinson
Explore my top 5 mission patches of all time!
Space NOW Blog
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- Space and popular culture
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Space NOW! Podcast
- 6th Jun 2025
- Author: Paul Millington
Space NOW! The space news podcast from the National Space Centre that goes beyond the headlines.
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Public domain Biomass: Weighing Carbon Stored in Forests
- 1st Apr 2025
- Author: Sean Sweeney
Discover how ESA's Biomass mission will revolutionise our understanding of the Earth’s forests and their role in combating climate change.
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NASA How the UK helped America Go to the Moon
- 9th Dec 2024
- Author: John Statham
America may have landed astronauts on the Moon but it took people around the world to make it happen and UK citizens played a role in that.
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Pavel Danilyuk (public domain) Who owns space?
- 9th Oct 2024
- Author: Jasneet Kaur
What are the rules when exploring and operating in space and who decides what they are?
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ESA/ATG Europe; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Our World From Space
- 30th Apr 2024
- Author: Mike Darch
Lets explore how we study Earth from Space and all the wacky stuff we've sent up there over the years.
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NSC Creative Space Careers: Planetarium Shows and Immersive Media
- 7th Mar 2024
- Author: Alex Garton
From artists and software developers to producers and presenters, explore careers revolved around planetarium shows and immersive media.
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NASA What’s Happening in Space in 2024
- 28th Dec 2023
- Author: Alex Thompson
Are you ready for arguably the biggest year for space in over fifty years?
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ESA Beagle 2 - 20 years later
- 6th Dec 2023
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
20 years ago, Beagle 2 (a feat of British engineering) journeyed to Mars but didn’t phone home to say it landed. What happened to Beagle 2?
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NASA Space Highlights 2023
- 6th Dec 2023
- Author: Alex Thompson
2023 was a Lucy-JUICEy kind of year for space, let’s look back at some of the highlights!
