I've spent more of this year outside my own time zone than in it, Munich for a Salesforce summit, Paris and Rome in the same fortnight, and long stretches in London for a consultancy project. Somewhere in the middle of all that, I noticed something shift that had nothing to do with jet lag. Being...

I went to Munich this week for Salesforce's Industry Summit, and when I arrived at the welcome reception I did a genuine double-take at the venue: the European Southern Observatory. For anyone who's been following along here for a while, you'll know that was already a gift. Then the evening got b...

For years, when people asked me “so when are you actually going to space?” my answer was always the same:  Every day is a day closer than the one before. It was true, but also safely non-committal.  That answer has now changed. Something pretty significant happened recently. At the end of March, ...