- I reported the excitement of ESA’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P. Here I’m celebrating the landing with Rosetta’s chief scientist Matt Taylor.
- I visited ESA’s spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana for an Ariane 5 rocket launch.
- Discussing space with Professor Brian Cox.
- The dome of Grantecan, the world’s largest telescope. on La Palma, in the Canary Islands.
- Here I’m visiting the mountaintop in Chile that will be the site for the world’s biggest optical telescope in the future – the European Extremely Large Telescope.
- My trip to Chile included a night at Paranal, in the Atacama Desert, where the Very Large Telescope array stands.
- A highlight in Chile was visiting ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array at an altitude of 5,000 metres.
- I had the pleasure of interviewing Elena Gagarin, daughter of Yuri, the first man in space.
- With two astronauts, Helen Sharman, the first Brit in space, and Richard Garriott who took a private flight to the International Space Station.
- Underground at the Large Hadron Collider on the French-Swiss border
- With one of my space heroes, the late Professor Colin Pillinger, who led the UK’s Beagle 2 mission to Mars
- At the space centre in Toulouse, I wore a contraption that allowed me to experience how it feels to walk on the Moon!
- The furthest north I’ve been was to Svalbard, deep in the Arctic, to visit radio dish EISCAT.
- Chatting to Sir Patrick Moore, with a copy of Where Did Pluto Go?
- At an astronomical bash with writer Lucy Hawking, daughter of Stephen, and Brian Cox.