Difference between revisions of "World Space Week"
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| − | The [[University of Wolverhampton]] | + | The [[University of Wolverhampton]] celebrated the ''[http://www.worldspaceweek.org/ World Space Week]'', the largest annual space event in the world. |
This event was set up by the UNESCO to commemorate the launch of the first human-made Earth satellite—[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik Sputnik 1]—on October 4, 1957, and the signing of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty Outer Space Treaty] on October 10, 1967. It takes place every year in between these two anniversaries. | This event was set up by the UNESCO to commemorate the launch of the first human-made Earth satellite—[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik Sputnik 1]—on October 4, 1957, and the signing of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty Outer Space Treaty] on October 10, 1967. It takes place every year in between these two anniversaries. | ||
| − | We | + | We joined the celebration with two short talks, on space conquest and on the physics of stars, and a demonstration of the Physics underlying rocket propulsion, by flying [https://twitter.com/wlv_uni/status/916642273705779200 our own water bottle rocket]. |
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| − | The events | + | The events were free for all to come and were held as part of the University's [[Open Day]], where the audience also got a chance to see how other disciplines relate to this always more pressing challenge to humanity: how to conquer other planets. |
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Revision as of 17:45, 14 October 2017
The University of Wolverhampton celebrated the World Space Week, the largest annual space event in the world.
This event was set up by the UNESCO to commemorate the launch of the first human-made Earth satellite—Sputnik 1—on October 4, 1957, and the signing of the Outer Space Treaty on October 10, 1967. It takes place every year in between these two anniversaries.
We joined the celebration with two short talks, on space conquest and on the physics of stars, and a demonstration of the Physics underlying rocket propulsion, by flying our own water bottle rocket.
The events were free for all to come and were held as part of the University's Open Day, where the audience also got a chance to see how other disciplines relate to this always more pressing challenge to humanity: how to conquer other planets.
