A LIFE-sized version of astronaut Tim Peake and a model of the International Space Station created by schoolchildren will be beaming into Stretford Mall next week.
Children from Victoria Park Infant School were selected to be part of the ‘Rocket Science’ project - and they will be displaying their work in the centre from May 23 until May 28.
The Royal Horticultural Society teamed up with the UK Space Agency for the project, which saw 2kg of rocket seeds being sent to the International Space Station with British astronaut Tim Peake.
After several months in orbit, the ‘seeds from space’ were sent back to Earth, landing in the Pacific Ocean in the spring. They were then packaged up with identical seeds that had stayed on Earth, and packets of each were distributed to selected UK schools and groups for experiment.
The seven and eight-year-olds at the Henshaw Street school have been growing the seeds as part of a national experiment to study the effect of space on the growth of plants - with their results being inputted into a national database.
The budding botanists, scientists and engineers have been working on a whole host of space-themed projects, and the results of their experiments - together with the life-sized version of Tim Peake and a model of the ISS - will be on display to Stretford Mall shoppers.
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