Guess Who’s (nearly) back…

Big night for British sci-fi fans – and for fans across the world, too – last night as the BBC aired the latest trailer for the new series of Dr Who, which returns “at Easter”. I missed seeing it live because I was at work, but I caught up on it this morning, on YouTube [...]

Let’s look through… the ISS window…

( That title and picture won’t mean a thing to you unless you’re a Brit old enough to remember watching a BBC kids TV programme called “Play School”, sorry! ) The International Space Station is in the news again, big time. Not because its construction is nearly complete; not because it is now close to becoming [...]

Amazing times we live in…

While waiting to see the new “raw” Cassini images of Saturn’s moon Mimas this morning, it hit me, like a slap across the face, just how amazing the times we live in are… As a member of the popular Unmannedspaceflight.com forum I frequently read posts from people moaning about how long they’re having to wait for images [...]

Spirit stops roving, and soon will sleep

Well, the day rover fans and followers have been dreading for almost 6 years has finally come – NASA has announced that driving commands to Spirit have stopped, and she’s officially parked up for the forthcoming martian winter. Spirit will not move for many months – it’s possible she will never move again, because attempts [...]

The Beauty of Endeavour…

There have been some beautiful and iconic pictures taken since the start of the Space Age: Buzz Aldrin standing on the Moon… Earthrise… This week a new image was taken and returned to Earth that will join these photographs in the file marked “Wow… look at that…” Taken by an astronaut onboard the International Space [...]

We just lost the Moon… for now…

( Readers, please note: this is a long, personal ramble, one of those stream-of-consciousness posts that comes out when I’m trying to “get my head around” something and sort out how I feel about it, so it might not be particularly well structured, or make a lot of sense, and I might contradict myself here [...]