One giant leap for students

The Mission Discovery project is an opportunity for students aged 14-18 to spend time working with an astronaut, world renowned scientists and NASA leaders, creating ideas for experiments that might be carried out in space.

The winning team, ‘Apollo 10’, designed an experiment that will measure the rate of cell division in space using green fluorescent protein. Their experiment will be built by Dr Keeble and colleagues at King’s and NASA, launched to the International Space Station and carried out by the astronauts on board.