Mark Rocket: From Aotearoa to the blackness of space

Mark Rocket, the first New Zealander to reach space, shares the experience of launch, weightlessness and seeing Earth against the blackness of space. He also discusses sustainability, aerospace careers and why students should take action to follow their ambitions.

MethaneSAT, with the New Zealand Space Agency

Learn about MethaneSAT, New Zealand’s first official space mission as a country.

The New Zealand Astrobiology Network interviewed Dr Peter Crabtree, Head of the NZ Space Agency, Dr Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher, Lead Researcher for the mission and Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, EDF, as New Zealand joined its first official space mission to combat climate change.

Breakfast with an astronaut

Students from Oxford Area School who participated in Synergies in Space Mission to Mars last year have the opportunity to meet a real astronaut.

We are back on “Mars”

New Zealand Astrobiology Network in collaboration with Mars Society New Zealand, Mars Society Australia and the University of Canterbury (UC) have selected a student to be part of Crew 215 of the Mars Desert Research Station simulation.

Science, education and engagement at the Astrobiology Australasia Meeting 2018

The first international astrobiology conference in New Zealand, AAM2018 was an extraordinary opportunity for engagement. In addition to the main conference, there was an informal ‘no host’ function which saw significant turn out, an astrobiology workshop for teachers held one day in advance and numerous other engagements from Dr Seth Shostak, Dr Mitch Schulte, Dr Lindsay Hays and Dr Angelica Angles.

New Zealand’s hot springs contribute to discovery of oldest evidence for life on land!

Life might have colonised land 580 million years earlier than previously thought – and this has also implications for the search for life on Mars.
Professor Kathy Campbell from University of Auckland is co-author of a paper published in Nature comms that pushes the evidence for the oldest life on land by 580 million years from 2.9 to 3.5 billion years.