2021 marks the 50^th anniversary of the first Space Station, established 2 years after the first moon landing, 412 years after Galileo made his first telescopic observations of the skies, and 160 years since William Leitch, Scottish astronomer, naturalist and mathematician wrote his essay on the possibility of rocket powered space flight. Poetry also has the power to take us to new places, lifting off from the known world to explore beyond earth’s horizon, or making what we think we know strange again.  We’ve put together a selection of poems which you can climb aboard and explore with.