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The annual public lecture hosted by the Scottish Space School will be held on Wednesday 19th June.

GUEST SPEAKERS
Rick Hieb, STS-39, STS-49 and STS-65
Amber Gell, Spacecraft Systems Engineer

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Congratulations to the following students on their selection for the Learning Journey to NASA's Johnson Space Center, 26 October-4 November 2012.

• Francesca Capaldi, St Ninian’s High School, East Renfrewshire
• Niall Ferguson, Fortrose Academy
• Yola Jones, Beeslack Community High School, Midlothian
• Susie Little, Gryffe High School, Renfrewshire
• Stephen Lynas, Trinity High School, Rutherglen
• Kirsty McLachlan, Coltness High School, South Lanarkshire
• Lewis Miller, Fortrose Academy
• Ben McSeveney, Cumnock Academy
• Eilidh Oliphant, Dunoon Academy
• Zoe Parker, Grange Academy, Kilmarnock

The Scottish Space School hosted its annual  public lecture on Wednesday 13th June 2012, when the guest speakers were astronauts Mike Baker and Ron Garan, and spacesuit design engineer, Heather Paul. A record attendance of 430 enjoyed this inspirational event.

Congratulations to Arun Lakshmanan and Ashwin Sundaram Ramesh of Team Aeronomics on winning the Reach For The Stars Challenge 2012!! Well done!

http://reachforthestarschallenge.com

The first ever photo and video showing a space shuttle while docked with the International Space Station were taken from a Soyuz spacecraft which departed the station on 23 May, carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli back to Earth.

Once their vehicle was about 180 metres from the station, Mission Control Moscow commanded the station to rotate through 130 degrees. This allowed Nespoli to capture photographs and video of the space shuttle Endeavour docked to the station during her final mission, which completed on 1 June.

400 people attended the public lecture hosted by the Scottish Space School on Wednesday 15th June 2011, when the guest speakers were Anatoly Artsebarsky, Russian cosmonaut, Alvin Drew, NASA astronaut, and Amber Gell, NASA spacecraft systems engineer.

A video of the presentations will appear here shortly.

Over 300 pupils applied for Space School 2010; 120 attended the week-long residential summer school; 40 made it to the selection workshop in August; and finally, 12 were chosen to go on a Learning Journey to Houston in November.

Read the full story here:

http://www.strath.ac.uk/press/newsreleases/headline_330956_en.html

On 16th June the University hosted An Evening with NASA!, which included talks by two NASA staff: Heather Paul, Lead Engineer on Spacesuit Design, and Astronaut Nicholas Patrick.

Stand-alone Windows Media Player link (try this if the video below does not play)