Over 550 adults and children visited the event throughout the day. The day fired up young people’s imagination and interest in space science through providing hands-on activities where families were able to engage in space related activities and talk to the staff that work at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Children from across the Oxfordshire community were able to test their own homemade satellites, train as astronauts and build and launch their own rockets.
Younger children enjoyed the storytelling sessions about the lunar landing whilst people of all ages could try on the unique coverall suits our scientists and engineers wear in our specialist clean rooms, where satellite instrumentation is built and tested, or dress up as an astronaut from the European Space Agency.
