posted 02-04-2020 12:19 PM               

UK in Space Festival

7 March 2020
Leicester, United Kingdom

Join us for a celebration of British Science Week at the National Space Centre! Get hands-on with real science, discover new missions heading to space, learn about the vibrant UK space industry and the career opportunities within it, hear inspiring speakers and meet astronauts.

Britons in Space

Join two British-born astronauts, Helen Sharman and Tim Peake, as they share their experiences of living and working in space on missions that took place 24 years apart.

posted 02-14-2020 07:01 PM               

Please come along and be sure to visit the Spaceboosters stand.

posted 03-08-2020 03:21 PM               

Thanks to 'Owl' and 'Mrs Owl' for passing their tickets on to us, I was one of those leaving a ticket purchase too late.

I was in for the PM lecture. Helen Sharman and Tim Peake are the new "dynamic duo." A polished performance by both with a Q&A section at the end. A nicely interwoven story of an autographed copy of Yuri Gagarin's book "Road to the Stars" that flew to the Mir space station with Helen back in 1991 and then with Tim on his first flight to the ISS in December 2015. Well done to both.

Well done to National Space Centre for organising and hosting this event. Next year's date announced as 6 March 2021 put it in your diary.

Particularly well done to Tori (going back to Australia on Monday I believe) and to Tamela for hosting the astronauts in the planetarium.

Images will be available here.

Nice lecture from Dallas Campbell too. James Burke "Connections" style piece all about the Apollo A7L spacesuits. The opening slide contained images of a bra (Playtex), the Beatles Logo, a caterpillar, a rubber tree and a 'to do' list. He cleverly intertwined these subjects with the development of spacesuits from their diving suit/pressure suit beginnings right through to present day and the developments for martian exploration. Nicely done.

posted 03-10-2020 06:51 AM            

I booked tickets but unfortunately on the morning I had a terrible head cold and it would not have been fair to my friends to travel with them or to attend the event sneezing with my head like a wet sponge. Especially at this time with the Coronavirus being very relevant it was the only option I could take.

posted 03-12-2020 04:00 PM               

Well worth a watch. I'm standing up at this point hand across heart. Patriotic no doubt I also changed some light bulbs in the dark last night then tripped over the vacuum cleaner and fell a bit heavy onto my rib cage (ouch) still hurting.