2017: What a year!
It’s finally here: 2018. Many people seemed very eager for 2017 to end, and I’m not surprised, though you can’t cheat a calendar (unless you’re a pope some cent...
Category: Nonfiction
2017: Swedish Odyssey AKA Astrobiology in Sweden
A yearly meeting of the Astrobiology Centre of the Stockholm University took place this month in Tällberg. Its sessions covered topics ranging from habitability...
Space is a good place for countries to work together
Few people have a career record as impressive as Leroy Chiao: He’s an astronaut who flew three Space Shuttle missions, was the commander of ISS’ Expedition 10, ...
Making ESA ready for the future
At the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, I had the honor of being among the students awarded with ESA’s Student Sponsorship to attend the con...
It was a very good year…
That time of skeletons creeping down chimneys and eldritch carols has passed, and the time of reflecting upon the closing calendar year is here in its full stre...
IAC 2016, Part 2: Moonshots and deep oceans
The International Astronautical Congress had been full of interesting talks, people and events. We’ve already discussed the budding race to Mars, but there was ...
IAC 2016, Part 1: The Race to Mars
This year’s International Astronautical Congress is over, and we can now reflect on what it brought forth. It had been especially eventful this time and l...
FameLab & LPS16
Last Sunday, the Czech FameLab finale was held in the Ypsilon theatre in Prague. Eleven finalists; eleven great and fun science talks. I imagine it was difficul...
AFO 2016
This year’s Academia Film Olomouc has ended on Sunday and has been just as awesome as the last one, perhaps even more. I’ve interviewed several gues...
Planetary Science Hot News, Part 2
This year’s European Planetary Science Congress is over. It’s been exciting, full of news and interesting people and really well-organized. What wer...
