National Space Academy

Year 9s enjoyed building and launching their own space rockets on Wednesday 14^th March as Robin Mobbs from the National Space Academy came to speak to them about space exploration.

“I’ve delivered this talk to over 30,000 students from Land’s End to Shanghai and my aims are always the same:” said Robin. “To relate some of the amazing stories about the reality of space to their Physics lessons in the classroom, to show them that there is so much to be inspired by, and to bring a little bit of space to them so they can see and touch space food, rocks and parts of space rockets so they really feel that space is within reach. They may not end up being an astronaut (although someone has to be) but there are many, many jobs in the space industry and if you are interested enough and you work hard, you can get there. You can actually do that yourself.”