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Team Tim

POSTED ON July 4th  - POSTED IN Rockets, Space, Tim Peake, Timeline

“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the International Space Station!”

Yes indeed you can see it with your own eyes – no binoculars required!

On certain nights of the year, depending on your location and the spacecraft’s position in orbit, you can see it, a very bright light steadily moving across the clear night’s sky. And if you do manage to spot it, soon you and the rest of the UK will be ever so aware of who is on board; because next year we will have our very own British astronaut representing us on the International Space Station’s ‘Expedition 46’, as he hurtles by 450 miles above us, travelling at a speed faster than a bullet!

The name of the astronaut is Tim Peake and he is currently training in Russia for a 6 month stay on the world’s biggest manmade structure in space. While he is up on the International Space Station, Tim will be (amongst other things) conducting lots of science experiments, growing plants, and hopefully doing a spacewalk.

Last weekend, we were extremely fortunate and excited to meet Tim over Skype! We were filming with Tim for our new exciting space show all about Tim Peake and the International Space Station called “Team Tim”

SPACEFUND MEETS ONE OF THE TWENTY FOUR

POSTED ON April 21st  - POSTED IN Space, The biggest rocket ever built
Last weekend,  accompanied by our massive 8ft Saturn V model rocket we ventured north to Pontefract in search of Apollo Astronaut Ken Mattingly. “A strange place to find a veteran NASA astronaut,” you may say, but thanks to a wonderful event called Space Lectures (www.space-lectures.com) Pontefract has become the biannual destination for many a  spacey person in search of a taste of the golden age of human space exploration.

 

A 2014 LUNAR CALENDAR THAT IS OUT OF THIS WORLD!

POSTED ON January 2nd  - POSTED IN Space, Visual

 

As you know we love all things Spacey! So when we came across this great 2014 Lunar Calendar we just had to share it with you all.

The calendar has all 365 moon phases for the year and it even glows in the dark…wow!! This just seems so quirky and fun that we would love to have one.

It was designed by Tyler Stout’s Space Aged to Infinity: A 2014 Lunar Calendar.

Sadly looks like they are all sold out 🙁

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