Team Tim
“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the International Space Station!”
Yes indeed you can see it with your own eyes – no binoculars required!
On certain nights of the year, depending on your location and the spacecraft’s position in orbit, you can see it, a very bright light steadily moving across the clear night’s sky. And if you do manage to spot it, soon you and the rest of the UK will be ever so aware of who is on board; because next year we will have our very own British astronaut representing us on the International Space Station’s ‘Expedition 46’, as he hurtles by 450 miles above us, travelling at a speed faster than a bullet!
The name of the astronaut is Tim Peake and he is currently training in Russia for a 6 month stay on the world’s biggest manmade structure in space. While he is up on the International Space Station, Tim will be (amongst other things) conducting lots of science experiments, growing plants, and hopefully doing a spacewalk.
Last weekend, we were extremely fortunate and excited to meet Tim over Skype! We were filming with Tim for our new exciting space show all about Tim Peake and the International Space Station called “Team Tim”
SPACEFUND MEETS ONE OF THE TWENTY FOUR
A 2014 LUNAR CALENDAR THAT IS OUT OF THIS WORLD!
The calendar has all 365 moon phases for the year and it even glows in the dark…wow!! This just seems so quirky and fun that we would love to have one.
It was designed by Tyler Stout’s Space Aged to Infinity: A 2014 Lunar Calendar.
Sadly looks like they are all sold out 🙁
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SPACE MINIATURIZED WITH TILT-SHIFT
How to make space miniature? Just tilt-shift them. As if seeing pictures of space isn’t awe-inspiring enough then just look at these pics – Space miniaturized with Tilt-Shift
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PASSING JUNO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CzBlSXgzqI
On October 9th 2013 NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew past the earth and accomplished a speed of more than 8,800mph, now that is fast!! It looks to rendez-vous with Jupiter the largest planet in our solar system on July 4th 2016.
Photo : NASA/JPL-Caltech
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ALIEN PLANET’S ATMOSPHERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13zgvbFkwwM
It’s amazing how science keeps evolving and we just keep on learning and pushing the boundaries.Just when we thought we can’t see any further into space. When a planet transits its star, the change in light tells its tale. Size, mass and atmospheric composition can be derived.
Credit: NASA, ESA, L. Calçada
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KENT MESSENGER ONLINE
On the 15th November 2013 we were mentioned on Kent Messenger online. Read the article here
EDA’s STUDENTS CONTRIBUTE TO OUR SHOW
If you haven’t read this article on our show ‘The biggest rocket ever built’ on the Univerity of Kent’s website then click here to read more
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“When I decided to take part I was actually expecting something less fun than this. It was great that this show was so fun and informative / educational at the same time. Both the pupils and myself had a lot of fun on every show.” – Christina Komliki (Student Engineer)
If you haven’t read this article on our show ‘The biggest rocket ever built’ on the University of Kent’s website then click here to read more