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Pale Blue Dot Photograph … Our Earth, Our home, That’s us in a pixel.
Iconic. , Inspiring. , Living in the city. , Photo. , Quote. , Space. Oct 19, 2018 No CommentsJust once in a while an image, a music score, or speech holds me absolutely spell bound … Was just an ordinary Thursday evening & a speculative YouTube search for ‘greatest speeches’ came up with a speech by Carl Sagan.

Nasa meets the Clangers! Collecting moon rock is boring, have some Blue String Pudding instead!
Geography. , Iconic. , Inspiring. , Learning. , Nostalgia. , Space. Oct 19, 2018With the Neil Armstrong biopic ‘First Man’ pulling in the crowds in cinemas, I just couldn’t resist blogging about a classic children’s T.V. series, the Clangers which ran from 1969 – 1972. This episode, The Rock Collector, still makes me

As an avid fan of the Space Race, always sad to hear that another member of that elite club of Apollo Moonwalkers has passed away. Al Bean is perhaps most famous for ‘flicking the SCE to AUX’ switch during the

How to teach Lunar Geology: Professor Lee Silver in ‘Galileo Was Right’.
Geography. , Iconic. , Inspiring. , Learning. , Space. May 05, 2018I’ve watched this media clip taken from the HBO miniseries: ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ many times. Apart from learning more about lunar geology, as a former teacher, this clip of Professor Lee Silver leading the Apollo 15 prime

Spot the difference, our planet viewed from space!
Geography. , Iconic. , Map. , Space. Jan 28, 2018Was pointed out early in my academic studies that all the boundaries between countries are socially constructed! Also, that maps and globes are the product of humans. Nice colours on the manufactured globe though!