Meet Noel – a 27 year old astronautical engineer who works with NASA’s super computers to find a new way to land on Mars. Read the interview to learn about the possibility of humans on Mars, how physics affects our everyday lives and the role of rockets, parachutes and airbags in space.

Space physicists can add another feather to their cap following the retrieval of the Hayabusa space capsule – the first unmanned space craft to land on an asteroid and return to Earth.

Professor Sackett celebrates the 50th Anniversay of the the NASA Space Tracking Treaty