World Book Day
- 7th Mar 2024
- Author: Elspeth Lewis
To celebrate World Book Day, we’re looking back at some of the authors that the National Space Centre has hosted in the last year.
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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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ESA LEGO into Space
- 1st Mar 2024
- Author: Emma Mosley
Lego has built models of spacecraft but has Lego been into Space? Yes it has and here is a list of the furthest travelled pieces of Lego!
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ESA Orbits and Their Descriptions
- 19th Feb 2024
- Author: Ed Turner
We often talk about satellites, but what do all their different orbits mean? What's the difference between a Lagrange Point and a GEO?
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NASA/JPL-Caltech The CANs and CAN’Ts of Time Travel
- 13th Feb 2024
- Author: Caitlin Hauxwell
Could time travel be possible? What would the rules be? And what are the mind-bending paradoxes that go with it?
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA Cosmic Valentines
- 8th Feb 2024
- Author: Catherine Muller
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NASA Intuitive Machines - IM-1 mission
- 7th Feb 2024
- Author: Dhara Patel
Another private company, Intuitive Machines, attempts to land on the Moon in 2024 - but will it be the first to succeed?
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Pixexid - Ralph CC BY 4.0 DEED To Boldly Game – the best gaming this side of the Milky Way!
- 26th Jan 2024
- Author: Mike Darch
Whether you're after some simple fun or a reason to unleash your competitive side, here's some space science board games to get stuck into!
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NASA, ESA, and S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team Space Telescopes
- 25th Jan 2024
- Author: Katie Holland
Space telescopes have been helping to expand our view of the cosmos for the last 50 years, but why do we bother sending them to space?
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Astrobotic Technology Peregrine Mission 1
- 8th Jan 2024
- Author: Dhara Patel
Others have tried, but will Astrobotic’s Peregrine mission triumph in becoming the first private mission to successfully land on the Moon?
