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SPACE ROCKS AT THE ESTEC OPEN DAY 2025
SPACE ROCKS AT THE ESTEC OPEN DAY 2025
The ESTEC Open Day is a truly unique opportunity for the public to get a front row seat to the final frontier at the technical heart of the European Space Agency. From astronauts to astrophysicist...
Space Rocks
347d ago
Uplink: A Review of Steven Wilson's The Overview
Uplink: A Review of Steven Wilson's The Overview
With the release of Steven Wilson's magnificent The Overview record, we thought we'd revisit Uplink with our friends, solar scientist Miho Janvier and Prog magazine editor Jerry Ewing to share our ...
Space Rocks
348d ago
Space Rocks at the ESTEC Open Day 2024
Space Rocks at the ESTEC Open Day 2024
A wrap-up of Space Rocks at the ESTEC Open Day 2024 in the Netherlands. The Open Day is a remarkable event when ESA opens its doors to the public for a front row seat to the cutting edge of space s...
Space Rocks
348d ago
SPACE ROCKS AT THE ESTEC OPEN DAY: MEET ESA PROJECT ASTRONAUT JOHN MCFALL
SPACE ROCKS AT THE ESTEC OPEN DAY: MEET ESA PROJECT ASTRONAUT JOHN MCFALL
In October of 2023 Paralympian and Fly! Feasibility Study Subject Matter Expert John McFall joined the Space Rocks stage to tell us more about his groundbreaking work in human spaceflight. It all...
Space Rocks
348d ago
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 9 – MEET ESA ASTRONAUT ALEXANDER GERST
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 9 – MEET ESA ASTRONAUT ALEXANDER GERST
In our final episode of Life In Zero G, The Expanse’s Steven Strait speaks with veteran ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst about the future of human spaceflight, and how a view of the Earth from space c...
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348d ago
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 8 – LEAVING EARTH’S PULL
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 8 – LEAVING EARTH’S PULL
In Episode 8 of Life In Zero G, The Expanse’s Steven Strait gets the ride of his life with a first-hand experience of zero gravity – for real this time. As the lead actor in hit sci-fi series The E...
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348d ago
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 7 – THE FUTURE OF SPACEFLIGHT
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 7 – THE FUTURE OF SPACEFLIGHT
As the European Space Agency’s Director of Human and Robotic Exploration, Daniel Neuenschwander has a birds-eye view of our roadmap to the stars. No better place than AirZeroG to catch up with him ...
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348d ago
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 6 – A LIFE IN ZERO G
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 6 – A LIFE IN ZERO G
In Episode 6 of Life In Zero G, Steven Strait meets Parabolic Flight Astronaut Trainer Hervé Stevenin to learn all about how AirZeroG simulates the kind of environments that astronauts work in ever...
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348d ago
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 5 – MEET JOHN MCFALL
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 5 – MEET JOHN MCFALL
In Episode 5 of Life In Zero G, Steven Strait meets ESA project astronaut John McFall to learn more about the science of microgravity and the exciting experiments that take place aboard ArZeroG. We...
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348d ago
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 4 - A FLYING LABORATORY
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 4  - A FLYING LABORATORY
In Episode 4 of Life In Zero G, Steven Strait continues his journey at the European Space Agency's parabolic flight facility in Bordeaux. In our latest installment we learn how there’s much more to...
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348d ago
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 3 - FLIGHT PREP
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 3 - FLIGHT PREP
In Episode 3 of our online series, we continue our journey at the European Space Agency's parabolic flight facility in Bordeaux. In our latest installment Steven preps for takeoff and catches up wi...
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348d ago
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 2 - ZERO GRAVITY 101
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 2 - ZERO GRAVITY 101
In Episode 2 of our online series, we continue our journey at the European Space Agency's parabolic flight facility in Bordeaux. In our latest installment, Steven gets a briefing from ESA’s parabol...
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348d ago
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 1 - ARRIVAL
LIFE IN ZERO G WITH STEVEN STRAIT: EPISODE 1 - ARRIVAL
In Episode 1 of our web series, we take The Expanse star Steven Strait -- aka Captain James Holden -- to the European Space Agency's parabolic flight facility in Bordeaux to experience what microgr...
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348d ago
Space Rocks at the ESA Open Day 2023
Space Rocks at the ESA Open Day 2023
We were thrilled to host our own stage at the ESA’s ESTEC Open Day last month with our esteemed hosts, ESA astrobiologist Nicol Caplin and ESA medical scientist Angelique van Ombergen for a fun and...
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348d ago
SPACE ROCKS AT THE 2022 ESA OPEN DAY
SPACE ROCKS AT THE 2022 ESA OPEN DAY
In a spectacular return to our live events programme, Space Rocks hosted our very own stage at the NL Space Campus in Noordwijk to coincide with ESA’s Open Day. As part of the very first edition of...
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349d ago
Uplink 64: Filming the Future
Uplink 64: Filming the Future
Don’t miss Uplink episode 64 this Thursday, 24th February when we’ll be joined by Oscar-winning VFX ace Paul Franklin for a very special look back at the work of recently departed VFX legend and ‘2...