The first of the following two poems by Robin Spina was inspired by Mike Collins “I imagined him walking past his Apollo 11 command module on display in the museum, conscious of the fact that he was once inside it, a quarter of a million miles away, alone with no radio contact behind the moon“ […]
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Carol Vorderman
Calling all Yorkshire folk… one not to miss… the space twins… x https://t.co/rVq0MU9Lih — Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) July 14, 2016 A nice shout out from the lovely Carol Vorderman for us. Carol is on the board which promotes space science education in partnership with NASA. She works alongside astronauts including our October guest Capt Mark Kelly and spaceflight companies […]
The Grannies Who Flew To The Moon
Last October, little Katie Denyer was inspired when she came with her mum to the Jim Lovell event. Take a look at what happened next… Watch The Grannies Who Flew To The Moon by Katie Denyer read by Andy Serkis http://bbc.in/1OSdK7l
Mission Control, The Men Who Put A Man On The Moon
You are all in for a real treat at as ‘Mission Control, The Men Who Put A Man On The Moon’ takes to the big screen for its preview this June. In October Space Lectures facilitated an interview with Jim Lovell for the movie. We were joined by the production team — executive producer Keith […]
Gene Cernan Event *URGENT UPDATE*
URGENT UPDATE: It is with a heavy heart that Ken Willoughby and Space Lectures must announce that due to an unforeseen illness Capt. Cernan is unable to travel to the UK. As recently as Tuesday morning the Cernan camp were finalising hotel details. Capt. Cernan was determined to make the trip but fate has not […]
Our first live tweet from space
Space Lectures receives a live tweet from the International Space Station. Just a few days ago saw the launch of the Soyuz to the International Space Station with the new crew of Exp 47 on board, I put out a tweet wishing them well on their way … .. Imagine my surprise when I received […]
Moon Rock
It gives Ken Willoughby great pleasure to confirm that an Apollo moon rock will be attending this year’s Space Lectures events with Gene Cernan. On the Friday night we can now dine with the moon as well as an Apollo astronaut, and the moon rock will also be at the lecture event. The samples will […]
Launch status check
The new website launch has been a huge success, THANK YOU for all your wonderful comments on Twitter/Facebook and collectSPACE keep them coming. It was especially nice to hear from NASA astronaut Nichole Stott and retired NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski. Here is a write up by Joel Hughes whose company ‘Glass Mountain’ made it all […]
We are “GO!” on a new website!
It was back in 2014 when we were first approached by Joel Hughes of Glass Mountains with what seemed an amazing offer “we are a professional web design company who would be happy to work for free to design Space Lectures a brand new website” now my initial thoughts were, if it sounds too good […]