Godspeed Jim. 😔🚀

Fair to say I'm looking forward to Project Hail Mary coming out next year. Interesting to see something that looks like an Ariane in the trailer. youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI?...

I needed a new suit for work. This'll do nicely. 😁

New James Bond spotted paddleboarding off south Devon. Nah, it's me init. 🤗

#HappyPlace #Devon

#HappyPlace #Devon

This skeet is sent from a cable car over the Thames. 🚠

When I was a kid I loved building Lego. I was quite good at creating my own stuff too. But I'm crap at it now. There are just so many different pieces that do the one job they need to do. The creativity is all different. I liked having to be imaginative with the few bits I had.

I wonder why teachers are so frightened to engage with Raspberry Pi. I've just done an update and bricked my Pi5. 🤔

Sending this skeet from onboard a hovercraft.😁

Took Aragorn for a spin at #PortsmouthComicCon2025

Who knew Minas Tirith had a park and ride? #AragornOnaBus

As an Apollo nerd it's quite exciting to be spending the day with these people. 😁

Giving my vambraces a nourish and wax ahead of #PortsmouthComicCon next week. #ReturnOfTheKing

Laugh it up fuzzball. 😁

Whizzing through the countryside on a train, heading south from London on a sunny spring evening really is a super advert for Great Britain. ☀️🐄🐏🌲🌳🌳🏡🦋 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃

I seem to come up with my best ideas when I'm walking the dog. The problem is that I need to finish the ideas I've already had before I start something new.

No, it's not the first spacecraft to go into polar orbit. (Just go out after dusk on a clear night and look up). It's the first crewed spacecraft to go into polar orbit. News outlets should do better. I'm looking at you BBC. #Pedantic #Space 🚀☀️🧊☀️🧊☀️🧊🧑‍🚀🧑‍🚀🧑‍🚀🧑‍🚀

30 second pinhole projector with a biscuit box. We got it! #Eclipse

This is great. Even more of the ExoMars mission architecture to be built in the UK. 👍 spacenews.com/airbus-wins-...

Been experimenting with adding "emotions" to a robot. It's amazing how few pixels you need before the anthropomorphism kicks in. 😊

There's no such thing as "too many" robots, is there? #Maker #Robots

10 years since we sent Astro Pi to the space station it's still going strong. Today I completed another CPD session with primary teachers, who will be sending code to space with their classes in no time!

So. Electric State. Everywhere I look I see negative reviews. Is it in my top 10, probably not. Is it terrible. No way. Give it a go.

So is this a Starship landing or orbital insertion? What's the plan for planetary protection from all those microbes and bacteria from Texas? (And unmanned again BBC, really?)🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK is getting back into a run of evening sightings of the ISS, and (whisper it) maybe clear skies. Tonight's good pass is 20:01 in Swindon, but you can look up your times at spotthestation.nasa.gov. Look West at the right time, look out for a really bright, moving dot, and give the Crew a wave.

I can't believe it took me until my mid 40s to discover that unconditional love from a dog is one of the most wonderful feelings in the world.

Just watched the ISS pass overhead and what I presume is a Dragon chasing along behind it. I've been ISS spotting for 20+ years (and Mir before that) and it still blows my mind to see a crewed spaceship with my own eyes.

Yes perhaps surprisingly for many, UK does have a space agency @ukspaceagency.bsky.social, .as well as leading space capabilities and some of this is supporting an excellent European Space Agency programme @esa.int - so we must celebrate and nurture this vs darker times elsewhere…

Secondary careers fair selfie.

Making paper planes with a group of Guides. It's all about inspiring them, but I always come away from these events feeling inspired and energised myself.

Actually, pulled out the box last weekend and found an iPhone charge cable that a friend's daughter needed. This vindication means the box will only get bigger, and possibly multiply.😁

How do you post to feeds here? Just include the hashtag?

Sneak glimpse of my Saturday night. Updating some code onboard @yuri3rover.bsky.social and setting up a new WiFi hub as the "data relay satellite" for remote mission mode.

There is also an Oxford summer space programme being run by Space Store, residential and non-residential options available, one or two week options available 7-18 July 2025: www.spacestore.co/oxford-summe... Pass it on.

For those younger in our network: International Space Competition for 12-19 Year Olds: abclondon.org.uk/space-compet...

Hey new BlueSky friends, if you want to find out more about me and my robotic buddy @yuri3rover.bsky.social, you can read the article here👇 #Robots #Space #RaspberryPi www.raspberrypi.com/news/yuri-3-...

Anyone else using a proper aviation headset for their online meetings?😁

Finally all patches sewn on the latest flight jacket to add to the collection. It's dark navy blue in real life and I love it.

So it's #NationalApprenticeshipWeek. If you're at school, or college and people are telling you that apprenticeships are a backup plan, or "worse" than conventional university study, THEY ARE WRONG. As Bob Dylan said: The Times They Are A-Changin. Follow YOUR dream, like I did 25 years ago. 👍

Some great links in here, including the Airbus UK virtual work experience programme. If you're a student 13+ (or parent) I would highly recommend it. ESPECIALLY if you have applied for the 2025 #Apprenticeship intake at Airbus UK.😉 #NAW2025

Oh, that's what they meant by "working springer spaniel ".

Just curating some old documents and photos and Eddie gave me permission to share this memory. @yuri3rover.bsky.social @johnchinner.bsky.social

I've was wondering why the new show, #Paradise, has got under my skin. I've worked it out. It's the score. I had to look up the composer, because it reminds me of the soundtrack for the Apollo documentary "In the Shadow of the Moon", and gets me right in the feels.

My sister sent me this card. Made me laaaaf.😄 @skentelbery.bsky.social

10 years ago this rover was just a list of parts in a spreadsheet. 😁

Come on, The Repair Shop, if you're looking for a new presenter, you just have to ask. I'm just down the road and I've actually repaired stuff with my own hands, which is a better qualification than "father was in an 80s pop band".

How is everyone getting on with bluesky? I spent 13 years building up a 4k twitter follower base, but just don't have the drive to post much here because of the low engagement. Feels like I'm starting from scratch.😩

All packed for a day in the office. 😆

My wife and I were in a hospital a few miles from downtown DC having a prenatal check-up while Obama was being inaugurated. How different the world seems now.