Contests and Games, Space participation

SpaceKate competes in the Lynx Space Academy competition

SpaceKate is competing this weekend in the Lynx LSA Live at Westfield White City, London.  Those who pass this level will go to Florida to compete at the  Axe Apollo Space Academy.

Earlier this year she won a campaign to convince Unilever to let women compete equally in the Axe Lynx contest:

(You may remember all those Axe Apollo commercials where the girl rescued by a firefighter,  lifeguard, etc goes instead for the guy in the spacesuit.)

SpaceKate was one of the 250 people out of a many thousands of entries selected in The National Challenge.

She is reporting on her experiences at the Lynx LSA Live event:

The competition is being live webcast:

Update: The latest from Kate: The Lynx Effect? – On a Mission.

Space Policy

Space policy roundup – July.13.13

Some space policy items from today and yesterday:

 

Activism, Space Policy, SpaceCasts

Spacevidcast: The Plundering of NASA: an Exposé

Astrophysicist Rick Boozer discussed his new book, The Plundering of NASA: an Exposé (available as a Amazon ebook and in paperback at Lulu.com) on  SpaceVidCast on July 6th.  Here is the video of the program:

Update: Here is the Spacevidcast page for this show: The Plundering of NASA: An Exposé – Spacevidcast.

Education, Space Arts, Space participation

Video: Youth art displayed in space

Here is a very nicely done video made on the International Space Station showing the wonderful artworks of the winners and finalists in the Humans in Space Youth Art Contest displayed on a tablet with the station’s Cupola module windows in the background. Astronaut Chris Hadfield gives an introduction. The soundtrack music is also from one of the entrants.

Caption:

The international Humans in Space Youth Art Competition calls for youth 10-18 years old to “be inspired, creative and heard.” We invite them to learn about space and communicate their visions of the future of space travel and exploration through visual, literary, video, and musical artwork.

This years theme addresses the question, “How will humans use science and technology to explore space in the future, and what mysteries will we uncover?”

For more information, please visit www.humansinspaceart.org

 

Education, Science and Technology, Spaceflight & Parabolic Flight

Students study fire in microgravity on parabolic flight

Students at Univ. of California at San Diego carried out experiments on combustion and flame in weightlessness while riding on a NASA plane flying parabolic trajectories:

This article describes the odd behavior of flames in microgravity:  Strange Flames on the ISS – NASA Science. This video, seen also in this earlier post, is about the “strange, cool-burning form of fire”:

 

 

 

Everyone can participate in space