Our mission:

To create and deliver tailored SpaceWise Academy programmes with interactive and hands-on learning opportunities with experts, to ignite curiosity, nurture creativity, develop critical thinking, team-working, and communication skills so students develop the skills needed to succeed in the space industry – and beyond.

Meet the Team

Kate Arkless Gray

Kate – aka SpaceKate – is a space journalist, broadcaster and educator who is passionate about increasing diversity in the space industry. She is regularly found on national and international news programmes explaining the latest space news.

Michael A Flachbart

Michael is no stranger to STEM education having spent almost three decades working at Space Camp at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where he was Vice President of Global Operations, overseeing 30,000 national and international trainees each year – including a few who are now astronauts!