Visitors to the museum on 21st June are invited spend an hour doing daylight astronomy from the garden where William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781. It’s the summer solstice, when the Earth is fully tilted towards the sun …

Designed for being blasted into space and orbiting the Earth, the word Soyuz (in English, Union) has come into modern parlance and is synonymous with the Soviet space programme from the 1960s onwards …