Kids?
'Excitingly for some British and Russian kids, Kingston University and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will look at how fluids behave in microgravity......'
It floats, now go outside in the fresh air and play
The UK government signed a space science research agreement with Russia in Moscow today. Various experiments will be undertaken in what the two countries have tagged 'UK-Russia Year of Space 2011'. Catchy. “The UK plays an important role in space science and research throughout the world," said Minister for Universities and …
I don't know about the UK government, but here at Cardiff University, a team from the Cardiff Center for Astro-Biology (CCAB) has been invited to collaborate on two new space missions, the Bion and the Foton, to run astrobiological experiments. Part of the purpose of these experiments is the investigation of exo-planetary bacteria and the ability of simple life-forms, such as tardigrades, to survive the large temperature variations, the radiation and the large acceleration-deceleration shocks. Our Russian counterparts have already visited Cardiff to set up the collaboration.