The motivation is either an interest in space, astronomy, science fiction or being at one with the universe. Some see it as a spiritual choice.

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air, made it into a liquid, put some impurities in a ruby, attached a magnet, and detected the fires of creation.

We are attempting to give the public around the world the opportunity to be involved in very real space missions.

It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time.

1/1,000,000,000 Doesn't sound like a big number to most... but to me.... That's the universe.