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VIRTUALISATION UK schoolkids get space experiment opportunity
VIRTUALISATION UK schoolkids get space experiment opportunity | UK schoolkids get space experiment opportunity |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 05 March 2008 | |
  
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Garriott, the British-born son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, is currently in training at Russia's Star City for the eight to ten day spaceflight. The schools competition is being run in partnership with the British National Space Centre, the country's coordinating body for civil space activities, and is part of the UK Civil Space Strategy 2009-2012 and Beyond. Making school science experiments a part of a space mission is nothing new. For example, Columbia's ill-fated STS-107 mission included dozens of such experiments from schools around the US and other nations, including one from Glen Waverley Secondary College in Australia that tested the hypothesis that "a spider will build a different web in microgravity than on earth." |
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