Tim Peake: The Principia Mission
On Tuesday, 15 December 2015, ESA Astronaut Tim Peake launched into space.
Read more →On Tuesday, 15 December 2015, ESA Astronaut Tim Peake launched into space.
Read more →How do astronauts celebrate Christmas on the ISS?
Read more →Everybody wonders it, so we thought we’d answer it … just how exactly do astronauts use the toilet in space?
Read more →Meet July’s Star Apprentice, Thomas! Thomas (11) wowed us with his superb work – especially his map and comment about going to Denmark.
Read more →Fill out the form before July 31st 2017 and get free Space Diary graduation certificates.
Read more →Meet our June Star Apprentice, Annabelle (8). Annabelle has a passion for science and was awarded a place at Portsmouth Space Conference to meet Tim Peake.
Read more →October 4-10 is World Space Week and this year’s theme is ‘Space unites the world’!
Read more →Lucy is the author of the Principia Mission Space Diary and the Mars Diary.
Read more →The first activity in the Principia Space Diary is a 5-station Astronaut Workout.
Read more →What exactly is a Zap code and how do you use it?
Read more →Developed by primary teacher Claire Loizos, these student reflection sheets encourage students to recap on what they have learnt during a whole chapter of one of our programmes or after a specific activity.
Read more →Since launching the first edition of the Space Diary in 2015, we have received so many wonderful comments from teachers across the UK.
Read more →Just like a space mission needs many people with different skills to make it a success, the Mars Diary is a truly collaborative project involving authors, illustrators, designers, project coordinators, teaching experts and, of course, STEM experts.
Read more →Principia Space Diary is back, giving thousands of schoolchildren the chance to become space experts as they learn about British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake’s historic space mission.
Read more →Mars might be about 225 million kilometres away from Earth but it’s still our closest neighbouring planet.
Read more →Imaging meeting Tim Peake! Students from Wellesley did just that at the Principia schools conference.
Read more →The Oxford Road Community School’s ORSAnauts watch the live stream of the Principia launch.
Read more →Tim Peake is heading off on his post-flight tour of the UK this month, visiting all four UK national capitals along with Leicester, Manchester, Salford and Glasgow.
Read more →Richard Crowther is the chief engineer at the UK Space Agency. We spend five minutes chatting with him about his career in the space industry.
Read more →Astronomer Sheila Kanani is the Education, Outreach and Diversity Officer at the Royal Astronomical Society.
Read more →By the children of the Gardening Club at Hillmead Primary School, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts
Read more →We’re so inspired by all the great work students have completed during their mission to the ISS! Here’s what some schools have been up to.
Read more →Mike Salter is an engineer who works at Urthecast. Just two years after graduating from university, two Earth-imagine cameras which Mike had played a major role in developing were installed on the ISS. Not a bad start to a career in space engineering!
Read more →Berti Meisinger (ESA Mission Director) is Astronaut Tim Peake’s Mission Director and his main point of contact on Earth. We asked Berti to tell us about her job and give some advice to young space enthusiasts.
Read more →This blog has been written by Tim Bromwich’s Year 3 Class at Cooper and Jordan School, Aldridge
Read more →I’m sure you can recall a time when someone asked, ‘Do you remember where you were when…’ usually followed by a major historic event. Imagine future dinner table conversations, when our young people are asked if they remember where they were when the first British astronaut went to the International Space Station under the Union flag, and they reply, ‘Remember it? I was part of it!’
Read more →15,000 schoolchildren invited to write and draw their way into space with British European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake.
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