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.
