50 years of space science at Leicester

Last year – 2010 – was the 50th anniversary of  space research at Leicester.

We marked this anniversary with a 3-day meeting on July 6-8 2010. The meeting web page is still live (can be found here) and contains both copies of the talks and a vast collection of photos – both historical and photos taken at the meeting itself.

We are also putting together  a book to record the events of those five decades, the successes and the failures, etc, so far as possible in the words of those involved.

We have set up these pages for former and current colleagues to be able to post their reminiscences, photos etc. relating to the last 50 years of space science at Leicester. In addition to potentially providing some material for the book, we hope this might be fun too.

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