Thursday, 28 February 2013
STEM ambassador
I completed my registration as a STEM ambassador today, to help promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths to school age audiences. I look forward to helping out at both the UKSEDS (UK Students for Exploration & Development of Space) and the Kennedy Space Visitors Centre stands at the national Big Bang Fair at the London Excel centre, 14-17th March 2013.
Monday, 25 February 2013
"Frontier Mars" - Society VisViva
My team mate from Alpbach, Ingo Gerth, and his friend Roy Bijster who I met at SpaceUp EU, have set up Vis Viva, a society for space professionals where they are based in Delft, Holland.
Their first event was streamed live online today and the recording can be viewed here. Their guests were Dr Susana Direito, discussing detection of life on Mars, the amazing Dr Adam Steltzner talking about the engineering of the entry, descent and landing of MSL 'Curiosity' via Skype from NASA JPL, and Professor Bernard Foing, expert of Mars analogue research, which particularly interested me given my involvement with the Austrian Space Forum Mars analogue mission this year.
Their first event was streamed live online today and the recording can be viewed here. Their guests were Dr Susana Direito, discussing detection of life on Mars, the amazing Dr Adam Steltzner talking about the engineering of the entry, descent and landing of MSL 'Curiosity' via Skype from NASA JPL, and Professor Bernard Foing, expert of Mars analogue research, which particularly interested me given my involvement with the Austrian Space Forum Mars analogue mission this year.
Friday, 8 February 2013
#SimulateMars - Austrian Space Forum
From 7th to 16th February 2013, I volunteered as part of the Remote Science Support team for the Austrian Space Forum's Mars simulation mission, being carried out in Morocco for the entire month of February. My experiment MEDIAN was being operated by the field team of 10 people, and I was involved with the in-house mapping and geological projects, as well as helping to co-ordinate data from the field being sent out to remote experiment teams. Around 18 experiments were conducted and over 100 people from 23 different countries were involved in the mission.
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| MEDIAN in Morocco (c) OeWF (Katja Zanella-Kux) |
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Tim Peake & Space Boffins at the British Interplanetary Society
I was delighted to be invited to be on the popular "Space Boffins" podcast this month, especially when I found out the other guest was to be the UK's first ESA astronaut, Tim Peake!
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| Tim Peake, Ralph Timberlake, Jane MacArthur Photo credit: Richard Hollingham |
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