Thursday 30 July 2009

Space spectacular

Today's the last day of our space-themed Antenna Live event, featuring a new skin-tight spacesuit and some awesome 3D projections from the European Space Agency. It's running until 4pm so if you want to discuss spacesuit design with the experts and hear about the extreme effects of space on the human body, head down to the Antenna gallery.

As well as some fascinating objects we're got speakers on space medicine and an unusual British project called MoonLITE, which aims to fire missiles at the moon.

The 3D images of astronauts working on the International Space Station are really quite incredible, especially when projected onto a 3-metre screen. It's almost like you're up there floating around with the astronauts. It's probably best not to think too much about the space toilet and vacuum-packed food we also have on display though...

Image: Donna Coveney/MIT (see this new spacesuit, designed by Dava Newman of MIT, at our event)

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