About the Author
HELEN KEEN is a comedian and writer. Her live solo show, It Is Rocket Science, a comedic history of space science, was picked up and developed by the BBC for national radio. The show went on to win several awards, including the Association of British Science Writers Royal Society Radio Prize. In 2015 Wired magazine appointed her an Innovation Fellow in recognition of her creative and original approach to comedy, performance, and popular science. She lives in London.