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Mission X - Train like an Astronaut30/05/2013

A briefing session for teachers will be hosted by the Scottish Space School on Wednesday 19th June 2013.

For more information and to register for the event visit the Mission X page.

An Evening with NASA 2013 - The Future of Human Spaceflight23/05/2013

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

Register for the event to get an e-ticket.

Houston Selection 201209/08/2012

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
An Evening with NASA............50 years on from John Glenn17/04/2012

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.

 

Reach for the Stars!16/04/2012

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

Space School 201216/04/2012

Scottish Space School @ Strathclyde 10-15 June 2012. Congratulations to the 102 S5 pupils from high schools across Scotland who have been selected for the week long residential programme.  Competition for places was stronger than ever this year so commiserations to the applicants who missed out.

Celebrating 50 Years of Human Spaceflight24/06/2011

On 15th June the University hosted a public lecture, Celebrating 50 Years of Human Spaceflight

Iconic first images of Shuttle docked with ISS10/06/2011

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.

 

Celebrating 50 Years of Human Spaceflight05/05/2011

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.

Selection for Space School 2011 Announced01/03/2011
104 pupils from 73 high schools across Scotland have now been offered a place at the Scottish Space School @ Strathclyde from 12-17 June 2011. Congratulations to them and commiserations to those who missed out. Competition for places was fiercer than ever this year and the selection panel had a really difficult job arriving at their decisions.
Full STEM ahead for the Scottish Space School11/01/2011
This was the title of the article that appeared in the December issue of Space News, the quarterly magazine published by ADS, the trade organisation of the UK Aerospace, Defence and Security industries.  For further information on ADS visit www.adsgroup.org.uk
Talented Twelve Head for Houston20/10/2010

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

An Evening with NASA!28/05/2010

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)

Burns in Space17/11/2009
A thumb-sized book of poetry presented to the Space School students by First Minister Alex Salmond MSP at Holyrood on Thursday 5th November was passed on to British born astronaut Nicholas Patrick who is going to take it into space with him on shuttle mission STS 130 which is scheduled for launch on 4th February 2010.........(more).
Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers04/11/2009
How the Scottish Space School turned young people onto Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths .........(more)