Excursion Set

What I love about images from space is that they instantly show us the full three dimensional geometry of our planetary home.

Picture this.

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What Happened?

Perhaps it is true of all small countries, but New Zealand loves finding the local angle on global news.

New Zealand has unique opportunities in space.

With just a few strokes of chalk, we see that lightning and rainbows are drawn from the same well of knowledge.

It is worth pausing to recognise the extent to which New Zealand and New Zealanders have achieved something remarkable in space.

It is sometimes said that a person is not truly dead until their name is forgotten.

Working with them every day, equations become almost tactile.