Space competition approaches final with a bang

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The Space Experiment Competition is now approaching the final, which will be held at the IAF congress in Glasgow on 3 October. Six teams have been downselected to compete for the pize of flying their experiment on an SSTL mission in the 2010 timeframe, and all six have now had the chance to visit SSTL and take a tour of our clean-room.

Indisputably the most entertaining question we were asked during these tours was

"Do you have a 'No Farting' rule in the clean room?"

...we're still trying to think of an appropriate response!

Minister Ian Pearson
At BNSC's invitation, the teams have also had the opportunity to attend the Farnborough international airshow and present their experiments to Science Minister Ian Pearson, who expressed his admiration for the high quality of the science that the teams were hoping to do. All the teams were presented with copies of the book "BANG!" as a momento of their participation in the competition.

The teams have until September 12th to finalise their designs and submit them to the judging panel, which includes Colin Pillinger of the Open University, Pallab Ghosh the BBC's Science Correspondent, and Keith Mans the president of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Further information can be found at www.spaceexperiment.info, and the BBC have also been following the competition (see Space experiment contest launched, Six teams vie for satellite prize) aswell as industry well wishers SatNews (SSTL Pumps Up Students With Awesome Sat Creation Contest)

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