Thousands of pieces of debris are orbiting the Earth, travelling at over 27,000 km/h.1 This space junk can collide with and destroy essential satellites, knocking out communications – and in turn creating even more junk. As the layer of junk gets thicker, it’s becoming more dangerous to launch satellites and send astronauts into space. Our lifestyle depends on satellites in orbit, [...]
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Space Junk
15 Comments CherryPie on Aug 28th 2014
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Journey to the Moon
One of the exhibits in the London Science Museum is the command module from Apollo 10. It is quite fascinating to see it in person rather than in black and white on a television screen. The scorch marks caused when re-entering the earth’s atmosphere are distinctly visible.
Apollo 10, carrying astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young and [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 27th 2014
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A Room with a View
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 25th 2014
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Sweet Dreams…
…from Mercure Kensington
I happen to like the sounds of the city
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 23rd 2014
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London – Day Four
The breakfast was totally chaotic. On arrival there was no juice, fruit bowls or cereal bowls. I pointed out there were no bowls and the waitress said she would get some. I waited five minutes and nothing happened… I gave up and went to fetch my side plate and put the fruit (strawberries, raspberries and [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2014
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London – Day Three
There was a bit of a kerfuffle as we entered the breakfast room. The man in front of us was insisting his room was booked off on the breakfast sheet. When we were seated a man came and sat next to us and when asked his room number he used the same room number as [...]
21 Comments CherryPie on Aug 21st 2014
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London – Day Two
The breakfast spread was nice but the service was typical of a London hotel. The toast didn’t arrive and had to be re-ordered.
Our first port of call for the day was the Natural History Museum. We got there before the museum was open and there was already a queue to get in. When the gates [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 20th 2014
