Help us to Preserve the Past, Seize the Present and Secure the Future of UK Astronaut Events.
Have you met an Astronaut?
Send us your Astronaut Meet & Greet photos to be shared across the The Armchair Astronaut community and showcase your treasured Astronaut encounters in our online Gallery.
Did you recently attend an Astronaut event?
Share your experience with The Armchair Astronaut community by submitting a review. Your review will be added to our website and used to help shape the future of Astronaut events in the UK and Europe.
Not sure about these events? Read reviews left by the people who attended and discover their experiences, their lasting memories.
Click here to see all the previous Astronaut Appearances & Spaceflight Events we have listed.
Get ready to meet an Astronaut!
Listing of all upcoming Astronaut Appearances and Spaceflight Events in the UK and EU. Links to verified official websites where you can find further information and purchase tickets.
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A list of space attractions including museums, visitor centres and locations/sites of interest across the UK where you can further your passion and knowledge for all things space!
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Have we missed an Astronaut appearance?
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Everything we do is to preserve the past, seize the present and secure the future of Astronaut appearances in the UK and Europe. Our service is free for everyone but does have its costs. Help us secure more UK Astronaut events by making a donation to our mission.
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An exclusive club that recognises the continued support of our VIP ticket holder guests at our own events and to reward both their dedication to us and their passion for spaceflight.
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Please contact us if you cannot find an answer to your question.
The Armchair Astronaut is a community of Spaceflight enthusiasts based in the UK and Europe. We're from all walks of life, cultures, men, women, children, adults, experienced enthusiasts and new to the hobby; all united by our passion for Spaceflight and desire to be inspired by meeting Astronauts. We all had/have dreams of being an Astronaut or working in the space programme, but, for most of us, we're bound to live this dream vicariously through the Astronauts that have flown in space.
We founded and launched The Armchair Astronaut in 2015 on the back of almost 20 years of involvement of private/corporate event management services which included Astronaut speakers.
TheArmchairAstronaut.co.uk is an online public outreach platform available to promote all general public Astronaut appearances and Spaceflight events in the UK and Europe. This is a free service. We charge no fees and link direct to official ticket websites. Unless otherwise stated, these are not our events and full credit goes to the Astronaut and team concerned.
We have an established presence on Facebook and X where you can follow us for the latest news and announcements on Astronaut and Spaceflight events in the UK and Europe.
Many Astronauts have used our website as a platform to promote their UK events direct to UK space enthusiasts. This includes UK Book Tours by Buzz Aldrin, Chris Hadfield, Scott Kelly, Mike Massimino, Tim Peake and Kathy Sullivan, as well as multiple UK Stage Tours by Chris Hadfield and Tim Peake, both as a sole speaker and Soyuz TMA-19M / Expedition 46 crew tour.
It is our duty and pleasure to connect UK space enthusiasts with these events and opportunities, and we are always open to more in the future. Astronauts please apply here!
Historically we would add all public Astronaut appearances and events. On one occasion though this caused some unintentional upset. Once it was explained to us we understood the reasons and accepted the feedback. We're not here to take anything away from the organisers. There is a lot of effort and risk that goes into these events and our aim is to support the event, the opportunity afforded to us space enthusiasts, to promote and contribute to the success of the event for both the Astronaut and all who attend. We are always open to feedback from event organisers and always open to developing new ways to support their events.
Now, going forward, we only list events that are submitted to us (anyone can submit an event) and have been verified by us having reached out to the organiser who has engaged with us.
So, if any Astronaut event is not listed on our website it will either be because:
This is done to both protect you and to preserve our relationship with event organisers. In these cases we would definitely recommend proceeding with caution and make contact with the organisers to confirm the details and your eligibility to attend BEFORE purchasing tickets. You are welcome you share you experience with us so that we may support the wider community.
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Our main aim is to support existing organisations, many of who are non-profit and to promote existing Astronaut and Spaceflight events. Where an existing organisation is not able to accommodate the Astronaut, or where the Astronaut prefers to work directly with us we will always explore all options to host an event ourselves.
There are many different ways you can Get Involved:
We are self funded by our founder who pays all our operating costs and fees. We actively promote Astronaut events including paid for marketing and have done since 2015 to reach the ever growing audience of Spaceflight enthusiasts. We receive no commission from the tickets you buy or the events you attend.
While we no-longer provide material or cash donations direct to individual organisations, we do continue to provide financial support for their event advertising, offer free professional event management support at the event and provide free consultation services to those organisations who chose to work with us.
We do not receive any free tickets to attend events; that would be detrimental to our mission objective. We pay for our tickets and take our seats along with all other guests. On occasions where we have been gifted tickets these are used for promotional activities or to sponsor other people attending the event who otherwise would not be able to do so.
Donations are always welcome and greatly appreciated.
This is our very own, unique and exclusive way of recognising the continued support of our VIP attendees at our own events. The club rewards both your dedication to us and your passion for spaceflight.
Working with NASA (5 years in the making) our Veteran VIP award is a unique, limited edition, exclusive, not for sale, gift from us.
It is presented on your 3rd VIP event (the 3rd Armchair Astronaut event where you attend as a fully paid VIP ticket holder), presented to you jointly by the Astronaut guest and our founder, complete with photo to preserve the memory.
This is still very new and no awards have been given at this time but our 3rd event will be announced soon and all who attended the previous 2 events as VIP's will receive an email regarding this new club and unique award should they chose to attend the 3rd event as a VIP.
Additional Veteran VIP awards and rewards will be announced as the portfolio of our own events grows.
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