Martyn Wells: Optical Engineer
Read our Q&A with Martyn Wells. Martyn is an optical engineer who oversaw the optical design of the MIRI instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope.
Read more →Read our Q&A with Martyn Wells. Martyn is an optical engineer who oversaw the optical design of the MIRI instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Read more →Read our Q&A with Libby Jackson, Human Spaceflight and Microgravity Programme Engineer at the UK Space Agency. Here she tells us about her career in the space industry and what inspired her as a child.
Read more →We speak with Vinita Marwaha Madill, contract Space Operations Engineer at the European Space Agency. Here she tells us about her career in the space industry and how Helen Sharman inspired her to follow her dreams.
Read more →We speak with volcanologist, Tamsin Mather. Here she tells us about her career in the STEM sector and how her job isn’t just wearing a silver suit traipsing up a volcano…
Read more →Introducing Sean Goldsbrough, Senior Orbital Analyst at the UK Space Agency.
Read more →Read our Q&A with Sue Horne, Head of Space Exploration at the UK Space Agency. Here she tells us about her career in the space industry and how she kept bees as a child!
Read more →Introducing Dr. Iya Whiteley, Space Psychologist and Director of the Centre for Space Medicine, University College London.
Read more →We speak with Stephen Lewis, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at The Open University. Here he tells us about his career in the STEM industry and what inspired him as a child.
Read more →We speak with Peter McOwan, Professor of Computer Science at Queen Mary University London. Here he tells us about his fascination with robotics and how he’s not out to rule the world.
Read more →Read our bio of Maggie Aderin-Pocock, an incredibly inspiring Space Scientist and who cameos in Chapter Five of the Mars Diary.
Read more →We speak with Cindy Forde, a Space Communicator with a special interest in inspiring children to see their own STEM potential. Here she tells us about her career in the space industry and what she was like as a child.
Read more →A huge crater named Ismenia Patera exists on the Red Planet. But where did it come from?
Read more →To introduce us to Chapter One of the Space Diary we asked private astronaut Richard Garriott to share his experiences of going to space.
Read more →Our showcase of STEM experts will help students challenge their ideas of who a scientist is and what he or she does.
Read more →2018 is the UK’s Year of Engineering! Get involved with our Design Your Spacesuit activity.
Read more →Find out all about ESA’s ExoMars rover, which will travel to Mars in July 2020 to look for signs of life.
Read more →For World Soil Day we wanted to find out if the soil on Mars was really red and what makes it look that way.
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 →Imaging meeting Tim Peake! Students from Wellesley did just that at the Principia schools conference.
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.
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