Could see me reviewing scripts for the TV shows I’m working on, including a kids’ programme called Dr Maggie’s Space Adventures and a Sky One drama about women who travel to another galaxy.

Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, space engineer and presenter of TV’s the Sky at Night, has an unusual retirement plan in mind – in the unlikely event that she will ever hang up her telescope.

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Educating new generations of engineers, astronauts and scientists, Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock has, over the past 20 years, spoken to 550,000 people, mainly schoolchildren, about space and astronomy.