3. Education and marketing through microgravity experiments
When it comes to improving understanding of space exploration
and its many applications, particularly in medicine, popularisation is a key step for society. It can start from a very young age.
As luck would have it, space has a unique capacity for captivating
students and teachers the world over.
Since its very beginnings, space exploration has inspired our
youngest learners to build rockets from bottles or space helmets from
cardboard.
Starting in 1985, the Discovery space shuttle has used toys to
demonstrate how the laws of physics affect their behaviour, as part
of NASA’s educational programme International Toys in Space (videos available...
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