To coincide with World Space Week a team of Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) Ambassadors visited RAFA Kidz at RAF Cranwell to build rockets and write postcards to space for fifteen children aged 4 to 10 yrs.
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Whilst the younger children enjoyed drawing and colouring their rockets, the older children discussed how the shape, size and number of wings they stuck onto their rockets might affect the flight – both distance and direction.
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Once the rockets had been built, they were taken outside to the launch site and fired off one at a time! Some travelled quite a distance, others spiralled sideways catching the wind in their numerous wings whilst others flew so high and so far that they are still hiding up in the tree they landed in, refusing to come down!
After all the rockets had been successfully launched, the children returned to their colouring tables and started on their postcards drawing pictures, writing a message with their name & age – the postcards were then collected and will be sent out to space on the next mission!
Go to: Blue Origin Club for the Future | Postcards to Space (clubforfuture.org) for details of how to send a postcard to space.
