10.00 or 13.30 sessions available

Come and enjoy this 2-hour space experience for all ages!

This package includes 2 virtual reality experiences, donning a replica Tim Peake space suit, augmented reality, eating like an astronaut, holding rocks older than the planet itself, and more.

Our hands-on experience, hosted at Space Store, Orchard Centre, Didcot, makes this a day both kids and adults won’t forget!

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan will take a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) beginning at 12:00 GMT to install the International Docking Adapter. This will be the 407th spacewalk / 218th spacewalk for ISS, Nick Hague’s 3rd spacewalk (total 2: 13hrs:24mins) and Drew Morgan’s 1st spacewalk. Watch Live here

10.00 or 13.30 sessions available

Come and enjoy this 2-hour space experience for all ages!

This package includes 2 virtual reality experiences, donning a replica Tim Peake space suit, augmented reality, eating like an astronaut, holding rocks older than the planet itself, and more.

Our hands-on experience, hosted at Space Store, Orchard Centre, Didcot, makes this a day both kids and adults won’t forget!

10.00 or 13.30 sessions available

Come and enjoy this 2-hour space experience for all ages!

This package includes 2 virtual reality experiences, donning a replica Tim Peake space suit, augmented reality, eating like an astronaut, holding rocks older than the planet itself, and more.

Our hands-on experience, hosted at Space Store, Orchard Centre, Didcot, makes this a day both kids and adults won’t forget!

A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will launch the second GPS 3 satellite for the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, at 14:55 GMT.

Join us on Thursday 22 Aug for this awesome talk where OceanMind will share how, through the use of satellites and artificial intelligence, we can preserve biodiversity, protect livelihoods, and prevent slavery in the seafood industry.

We can all play a part in protecting this planet so come and get inspired!

A Soyuz rocket will launch the uncrewed Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 03:38 GMT. Rather than delivering a crew to the International Space Station (ISS), as Soyuz spacecraft are designed to do, this Soyuz will be used to test a newly modified launch abort system

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft made the first-ever flyby of Neptune on Aug. 25, 1989, passing the ice giant and its moon Triton in quick succession.

10.00 or 13.30 sessions available

Come and enjoy this 2-hour space experience for all ages!

This package includes 2 virtual reality experiences, donning a replica Tim Peake space suit, augmented reality, eating like an astronaut, holding rocks older than the planet itself, and more.

Our hands-on experience, hosted at Space Store, Orchard Centre, Didcot, makes this a day both kids and adults won’t forget!

10.00 or 13.30 sessions available

Come and enjoy this 2-hour space experience for all ages!

This package includes 2 virtual reality experiences, donning a replica Tim Peake space suit, augmented reality, eating like an astronaut, holding rocks older than the planet itself, and more.

Our hands-on experience, hosted at Space Store, Orchard Centre, Didcot, makes this a day both kids and adults won’t forget!

During his talk, Tim Pinchin from the Satellite Applications Catapult will share fantastic space and earth images from the European Space Agency and Planet, and introduce the most up to date advances including video from space and seeing every part of the earth’s surface once a day, every day.

This package contains dehydrated bacon bars, which were freeze-dried for ease of packaging and storage during flight. It was flown on the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. Since it was not used, it was brought back to Earth. Most space food was easily reconstituted by the astronaut with a water probe which dispensed one half ounce of hot or cold water as required, each time the trigger button was pressed. These bars did not require rehydration and could be eaten straight from the package.

Apollo 11 was the first mission to land on the Moon. Bacon cubes were among the meals stored in the lunar module. And it worked out that meal A, the first scheduled meal to be eaten on the Moon, consisted of bacon squares, peaches, sugar cookie cubes, pineapple grapefruit drink and coffee. They ate history’s first meal on Moon slightly ahead of schedule after landing at the Sea of Tranquility.

NASA and industry partners are targeting the return of human spaceflight from Florida’s Space Coast. These flight tests will prove the space systems meet NASA’s requirements for certification to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. For this uncrewed flight test, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

In 1979, Pioneer 11 passed through Saturn’s rings, 1,300 miles above cloud tops.

Come to Space Store on Thursday 5th of September to know more, and for your chance to interact with flight proven hardware, learn about deployable structures and see how Oxford Space Systems is changing the way satellites impact life on Earth.

This is the best time to view Neptune since it will be at its highest point above the horizon in the morning sky. It will be easily visible through a small telescope.

Join us at Space Store for this free talk

ALIEN Worlds and ARIEL: Enabling planetary science across light-years – join us at Space Store to hear Dr Chris Pearson from the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory talk about this incredibly fascinating subject!

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation bringing the National Astronautics and Space Administration into existence on July 29, 1958. The decision came after the success of the Sputnik program.

Their first day of operations was 1 October 1958.

4-10 October

World Space Week, is the largest space event on Earth with more than 5,000 events in over 80 countries celebrating. The 2019 theme is “The Moon: Gateway to the Stars.”

Today, space agencies across the world  are planning lunar missions. The Moon is thus the logical choice for the focus of World Space Week 2019 especially as it is the 50th Anniversary of the first lunar landing.

Sputnik 1 is launched from the soviet union, 1957. Sputnik was only 23 inches in diameter but weighed about 184 pounds. At 500 miles up, at the speed of 18,000 miles an hour, Sputnik circled the globe every 96 minutes, making 1,440 orbits around the Earth before beginning its re-entry.

Mercury will pass in front of the Sun, casting a small black silhouette in front of the solar disk from 12:35 until 18:03 GMT.

Crew: Charles Conrad Jr., Alan L. Bean, and Richard F. Gordon Jr.

This mission also included the taking of the first multi-spectral terrain photography from lunar orbit.

Hubble was an American astronomer who proved that the universe contained a multitude of galaxies that were moving away from the milky way and who the Hubble Space Telescope is named after.

The two bright planets will be visible within 1.4 degrees of each other in the evening sky. Look for this impressive sight in the western sky just after sunset.

Commemorates the day in 1964 when Mariner 4, a robotic interplanetary probe was launched by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mariner 4 later became the first spacecraft to fly by Mars.

4-17 December

It is considered to be the best shower, producing up to 120 multicolored meteors per hour. It is produced by debris left behind by an asteroid known as 3200 Phaethon, which was discovered in 1982.

The best time to view is around 2am on the 14th but can be visible as early as 9pm each night.

During the Hubble Servicing Mission 3, the crew spent Christmas aboard the International Space Station in 2000