and BBC World Service. Cruddas has also appeared on various US documentaries broadcast on the Discovery Channel. Since 2019 Cruddas has been an investigator on the television series 'Contact' on Discovery Channel and Science Channel. Cruddas has written for The Sunday Times, New Scientist, BBC Futures, BBC Sky at Night magazine, BBC On-line, BBC Focus, Grazia magazine and The Royal Aeronautical Society. Cruddas is the author of three children's books published by Dorling Kindersley: DK Find Out!: Solar System, Do You Know About Space? and The Space Race. The third become the first British children's book to travel to the edge of space after Cruddas launched the book using a balloon from the countryside near Sheffield, South Yorkshire. She released her first adults title - Look Up: Our story with the stars in September 2020. Published by HarperCollins, the book features a foreword by Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins. Cruddas sits on the board of directors of Space For Humanity a US non-profit dedicated to democratising access to space. Personal life Cruddas divides her time between London and Los Angeles. Away from space, she has reported from across the world including; Australia, the Arctic, China, North Korea and Tibet. References External links Personal website Writing about the Big Bang in 2006 British science journalists Alumni of the University of Leicester BBC weather forecasters BBC Radio 4 presenters BBC television presenters People from Welton Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1984 births Television personalities from Yorkshire