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. ... (more)

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. ... (more)

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.

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

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. ... (more)

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. ... (more)

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).

How the Scottish Space School turned young people onto Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths .........(more)

Watch NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus'  presentation, Life on the International Space Station, web streamed live at Strathclyde University on 23rd June 2009.