The IoS interview: Colin Pillinger, professor of planetary science and inventor of Beagle 2. The year is 1956, and in an ordinary house near Bristol, a boy named Colin Pillinger hunches over the family radio to listen to that week’s episode of Journey into Space. Nearby lies a copy of the Eagle comic, its cover telling the latest instalment of Dan Dare, spaceman.
September 8th, 2001
Mars mission touches down in the Australian Outback The Independent
Ten astrobiologists, geologists and aerospace engineers united by one passion