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A New Space Age
Every year, Madatech takes part in promoting space and astronomy to families, students and the general public, as part of the Israeli Space Week, mutually initiated by the Israeli Space Agency and the Ministry of Science, Space and Technology. This year, the main space education and outreach event took place on Tuesday, 27.01.15 from twilight to nighttime.
Houston, we have space sushi.
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, MadaTech's guest, was impressed by the large audience of children eager to learn about the wonders of space.and delivered a fascinating lecture on his mission on the International Space Station, where he took pictures of the earth below, and posted them directly on the Web via Twitter and made the first sushi in space, while floating weightless.
A Whole New World
A variety of exciting activities at MadaTech were free of charge and include
• Missile Launching – displaying liquid fuel missile engines
• Creative Stand : building satellites and spaceships models
• Creative Workshop: size scales in the solar system
• Demonstrations: rocket or missile? Robots in space.
• The NASA Quiz: what should I take when I travel to the moon?
• Planetarium Show: Night sky watching
• Space Lecture: Stars Trek
• ISA augmented reality and photography stands
• The SpaceIL project – the Israeli efforts to send its first space shuttle into space
Space oriented activities ran January 25th through the 29th, 2015.
Visit Israel Space Agency site at http://www.space.gov.il
