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!
Space NOW Blog
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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?
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A Bite-sized History of Space Food
- 1st Jan 2024
- Author: Dan Kendall
A short history of space food and eating in orbit.
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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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© Scarlett Li-Williams (Sky Plum Studios) Tardigrades – The Ultimate Survivors?
- 8th Dec 2023
- Author: Scarlett Li-Williams
These small earth-dwelling creatures can out-survive us in many apocalyptic scenarios, and might unlock the code to our space survival.
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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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Ryan Wick CC BY 2.0 DEED A beginner's guide to Telescopes
- 6th Dec 2023
- Author: Lucy Spencer
Telescopes are powerful tools for observing the night sky – read this blog for a simple guide on what to look for, and how to use them!
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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!
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NASA Space Stations
- 8th Nov 2023
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
Space is vast, empty, and dangerous. So where do people go when they’re launched high above the Earth? And what do they do up there?
