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Astro Pi Prize - CGI visit
Charlie Maclean and his Astro Pi coding excellence prize visit to CGI
From urine samples to space conferences: it's been a busy couple of weeks!
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From making pee in pots to helping open a new ESA building, the last two weeks have kept everyone here on their toes.
Update: Rocket Science: a change of plan
At 05:38 BST (2 September 2015), Andreas Mogensen, Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov were launched on the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft into orbit. The cargo being carried with them includes 2kg of rocket seeds, ready for Tim Peake’s mission in December …
Rocket seeds ready for launch!
Two kilograms of rocket (salad) seeds are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of British ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s six-month Principia mission.
Odysseus competition open to young UK scientists
Young scientists from the UK are invited to compete in Odysseus, an exciting competition exploring the mysteries and challenges of space.
Plants in space: success at the Chelsea Flower Show
Last week, we celebrated the launch of Rocket Science; an educational project sending salad seeds to space and back. Give your local school the opportunity to grow these 'space seeds' in a national science experiment.
Into gardening? We're at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show!
We can't wait to exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower show next week and we want you to tell us which of the following plants you would take to space.
How to 'Make That Call': #TalkToTim on the ISS
Tim Peake has recently issued the challenge to schools and other organisations to ‘Make That Call’ to him in space, using the amateur radio on board the ISS. But what is this amateur radio, and how does it work?
Bringing space down to Earth: the Big Bang Fair 2015
This week I’ll be meeting my fifth astronaut - if you count walking past Chris Hadfield on a zebra crossing as ‘meeting’. This isn’t actually the thing I’m most excited about this week. Jean-Francois Clervoy an ESA shuttle astronaut will …