Students in Carlow have had the unique opportunity to ask live questions to an Astronaut based on the International Space Station.
A CALL FROM SPACE! Watch back here https://t.co/OWxGmHXBK1 to the in-flight call with Matthias Maurer. Hosted with @scienceirel in @itcarlow and organised by @Esero_ie. Senior cycle schools were invited on campus to be a part of this live call. pic.twitter.com/VjysPVNWts
— SETU Carlow (@itcarlow) November 24, 2021
As part of an event organised by ESERO Ireland, Germany, and the Czech Republic, students in a number of Carlow schools were able to beam their questions over 400km into space to be answered by European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer.
Really interesting to listen in to today's @Esero_ie hosted event with @esa Astronaut @astro_matthias @itcarlow
today #Carlow
More to follow @beat102103 shortly! pic.twitter.com/ssY9J4zAeV— Kevin Galvin (@kjgalvin93) November 24, 2021
The event was part-hosted by IT Carlow, under the theme ‘Once Explorers, Always Explorers’.
Matthias told Rebecca Young of St Leo’s College that cutting down waste is crucial for space exploration
"Looking at how much energy you need to produce an object and how long you can use these objects and then later on also to look into the details on how to recycle and reuse."
"Imagine you want to travel to Mars, it's a trip of about 500 days, if you bring everything along your vehicle needs to be double powerful."
A CALL FROM SPACE! Watch back here https://t.co/OWxGmHXBK1 to the in-flight call with Matthias Maurer. Hosted with @scienceirel in @itcarlow and organised by @Esero_ie. Senior cycle schools were invited on campus to be a part of this live call. pic.twitter.com/VjysPVNWts
— SETU Carlow (@itcarlow) November 24, 2021
Image: Kevin Galvin Twitter
