John Chinner
Head of Outreach - Airbus Defence & Space UK. STEM Ambassador, Space Geek, Robot maker.
Opinions & hair = my own.
- Godspeed Jim. 😔🚀
- Fair to say I'm looking forward to Project Hail Mary coming out next year. Interesting to see something that looks like an Ariane in the trailer. youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI?...
- I needed a new suit for work. This'll do nicely. 😁
- New James Bond spotted paddleboarding off south Devon. Nah, it's me init. 🤗
- This skeet is sent from a cable car over the Thames. 🚠
- When I was a kid I loved building Lego. I was quite good at creating my own stuff too. But I'm crap at it now. There are just so many different pieces that do the one job they need to do. The creativity is all different. I liked having to be imaginative with the few bits I had.
- I wonder why teachers are so frightened to engage with Raspberry Pi. I've just done an update and bricked my Pi5. 🤔
- Sending this skeet from onboard a hovercraft.😁
- This bad boy!
- Took Aragorn for a spin at #PortsmouthComicCon2025
- Who knew Minas Tirith had a park and ride? #AragornOnaBus
- As an Apollo nerd it's quite exciting to be spending the day with these people. 😁
- Giving my vambraces a nourish and wax ahead of #PortsmouthComicCon next week. #ReturnOfTheKing
- Laugh it up fuzzball. 😁
- Excellent first comic con today. Just had to dig out the Aragorn costume and hunt some Ork. #GosportComicCon
- Whizzing through the countryside on a train, heading south from London on a sunny spring evening really is a super advert for Great Britain. ☀️🐄🐏🌲🌳🌳🏡🦋 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃
- I seem to come up with my best ideas when I'm walking the dog. The problem is that I need to finish the ideas I've already had before I start something new.
- 30 second pinhole projector with a biscuit box. We got it! #Eclipse
- This is great. Even more of the ExoMars mission architecture to be built in the UK. 👍 spacenews.com/airbus-wins-...
- Been experimenting with adding "emotions" to a robot. It's amazing how few pixels you need before the anthropomorphism kicks in. 😊
- 10 years since we sent Astro Pi to the space station it's still going strong. Today I completed another CPD session with primary teachers, who will be sending code to space with their classes in no time!
- So. Electric State. Everywhere I look I see negative reviews. Is it in my top 10, probably not. Is it terrible. No way. Give it a go.
- So is this a Starship landing or orbital insertion? What's the plan for planetary protection from all those microbes and bacteria from Texas? (And unmanned again BBC, really?)🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by John ChinnerThe UK is getting back into a run of evening sightings of the ISS, and (whisper it) maybe clear skies. Tonight's good pass is 20:01 in Swindon, but you can look up your times at spotthestation.nasa.gov. Look West at the right time, look out for a really bright, moving dot, and give the Crew a wave.
- I can't believe it took me until my mid 40s to discover that unconditional love from a dog is one of the most wonderful feelings in the world.
- Just watched the ISS pass overhead and what I presume is a Dragon chasing along behind it. I've been ISS spotting for 20+ years (and Mir before that) and it still blows my mind to see a crewed spaceship with my own eyes.
- Reposted by John Chinner
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- Making paper planes with a group of Guides. It's all about inspiring them, but I always come away from these events feeling inspired and energised myself.
- Actually, pulled out the box last weekend and found an iPhone charge cable that a friend's daughter needed. This vindication means the box will only get bigger, and possibly multiply.😁
- How do you post to feeds here? Just include the hashtag?
