Mission Discovery - a giant leap for our students

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

Pictured above: Former NASA astronaut Tony Antonelli puts the students through their paces. 

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.