24 -26 September

This biennial flagship event brings together the entire space community, including government, industry, academia, research and financial communities. The conference will offer the space community unrivalled opportunities to meet, network, do business and shape the landscape for the coming years.

Three new Expedition 61 crewmembers will launch to the International Space Station in the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft: NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, and Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates. They will be joining their fellow crewmembers  They will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket at 1257 GMT. Watch Live here.

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!

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!

Start your space voyage and book now

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.

Ephemeris “A Game of Astronomical Strategy”:
A talk, demo and signing by the Inventor, Freddie Holding.

Freddie, a professional photographer became obsessed with creating an innovative, exciting celestial board game. After months of brainstorming and development Ephemeris was born.

Come and join Freddie and listen to her inspiring journey to develop her concept, her hopes and dreams to share this great game with you all.

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.

Astronomers, space authors, rocket scientists. Meet them all at Space Day on Saturday 5 October 2019! The UK’s biggest free space event!

Click here for more information

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!

Start your space voyage and book now

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!

Start your space voyage and book now

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!

Start your space voyage and book now

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!

Start your space voyage and book now

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!

Start your space voyage and book now

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!

Start your space voyage and book now

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!

Start your space voyage and book now

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

Galileo came within 351 kilometers (218 miles) of Europa, and briefly passed behind the frozen moon. After the flight over Europa, Galileo was able to observe another three of Jupiter’s moons: Amalthea, Thebe and Metis.

NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer on the ISS sent the first live, unassisted tweet from space. Astro_TJ, wrote: “Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! 🙂 More soon, send your ?s.”