Rockets for All: Mission Complete!

On Monday 17th March 2025, nearly sixteen thousand students from around the UK joined the Rockets for All celebration event with Helen Sharman, the UK’s first astronaut, and explored the possibilities of a career in space.  Helen shared her journey from working at the...

GLA Community Insights Hub Launches!

The Community Insights Hub is a space designed to help connect community expertise to policy making to support policy design and policy change. The Hub is now live on the GLA website – click here to have a look around.  In 2024 Big Ideas facilitated a content...

Rockets for All takes off!

Exploring the possibilities of a career in space science, close to four thousand students from around the UK joined our Rockets For All workshops. Experts in the space sector– Dr. Helen O’Brien, Taskeen Ali, Professor Mark Sephton, Dr. Simon Foster, Dr. Sunday...

Have you used A.I. in your life?

“The children asked so many interesting questions about the environmental effect of AI, the ethical aspect etc. We had some very interesting discussions after the webinar.” Teacher Aspire To Engineer: A.I. and Me series has given thousands of children...

BOOK A PLACE FOR YOUR CAREER IN SPACE

Secondary school rocket and space careers programme launches  Secondary school classes and Further Education colleges are invited to take part in Rockets for All, a programme bringing the excitement of space careers and rockets to over 3000 young people across the UK....