As a kid growing up in the 90’s I was very aware of NASA. The iconic imagery of the space shuttle, the history of the Apollo missions, regular Hollywood appearances, and the Sojourner rover ‘3D’ images in National Geographic. National Geographic, August 1998. But as that little boy growing up in the UK with a British passport, I was told I couldn’t work there. It wasn’t until I was probably about 12 or 13 before I’d heard about the European Space Agency (ESA), and I immediately knew I wanted a future job there. Fast forward to 2013, and with an undergraduate degree in Astrophysics...