The next generation of physicists could help make passenger space travel a reality in their lifetime, the group pictured above were told by European Space Agency ambassador Laura Thomas.
The year 10 and 11 students, from Clarendon Academy in Trowbridge, joined 300 others at Kingswood School for a lecture by the astrophysicist entitled Defying Gravity, in which she explained how physics had allowed exploration of the cosmos.
As part of a Working With Others task for their COPE course, nine students from the Academy had the opportunity to visit Airkix in Milton Keynes to learn how to indoor skydive. They each had to undergo training for the event and had two turns each in the ‘wind tunnel’, where they all managed to ‘fly’ successfully.
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