Here’s a story from the vault.  In September 2006, I visited the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) near Cologne in Germany.  I was working for the in-house European Space Agency journal, ESA Today.  As well as writing a piece for them, which focused on the details of the up-coming astronaut missions, I also constructed a more general piece to reflect my experience of the centre.  I never published it anywhere else, so I guess that makes it a web site exclusive!

You can download and read the full article here.