Bishop Hedley High School 6th - 10th July, 2015 Mission Discovery has been devised and founded by Chris Barber and ISSET (an International Space School Education Trust programme) IF YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT, YOU WILL: Former NASA Astronaut & Space Shuttle Commander Ken Ham with Mission Discovery students y Present your idea for an y Work with astronauts, astronaut experiment to be carried out in space. trainers, scientists and NASA leaders! The best ideas for an experiment will y Take on the role of a real research be built, launched to the International scientist in a project. Our US partners Space Station and carried out in have a Space Act Agreement with space. Be there at Bishop Hedley High NASA that enables educational projects School, Merthyr Tydfil. You will be to be carried out on the International assigned to a team to formulate an Space Station. idea for an experiment that can be done in space. Former NASA Astronaut & Space Shuttle Commander Ken Ham with Mission Discovery students It was great to learn from such inspirational astronauts and experts through Mission Discovery, I had a fantastic time. - Emily Yeomans, Mission Discovery Student INTRODUCING OUR TEAM Mission Discovery introduces you to top level NASA leadership,Space Exploration Scientific Research Steve Swanson Jay Honeycutt Michelle Ham Chris Barber Current Astronaut Former Director of Senior Astronaut Space Educationalist Kennedy Space Centre Trainer Steve Swanson is Jay is former Director Michelle’s Founder of the a NASA astronaut of NASA’s Kennedy experience includes International Space and an engineer. Space Centre and having been a Lead School Educational Swanson has flown the former President NASA Astronaut Trust (ISSET) and on two Space Shuttle of Lockheed Martin Trainer and ‘Message to the Moon’. flights, STS-117 Space Operations. Jay Instructor, an ISSET has been and STS-119, and is an engineer who has International Space developed to be the Expedition 39 to had almost unrivalled Station Flight UK’s most the ISS aboard the senior level experience Controller, a Space exciting space Soyuz. Steve has with NASA in the Operations Planner educational also served as a Apollo, Skylab, and a Lead organisation, running CAPCOM for ISS Apollo-Soyuz and Planner for the programmes in the and Space Shuttle Space Shuttle Space NASA Extreme UK, USA, Arctic and missions. He has Programmes. He was Environment India. Chris has had logged 643 hours in the head of the team Operation.She has extensive careers in space and completed that devised been based at finance and four spacewalks simulations for Johnson Space education. He is also a totalling 26 hours and Astronauts and Centre, Houston, Leadership and 14 minutes. Steve Mission Controllers in Texas and has Organisational is a recipient of the NASA’s Apollo Moon carried out space Improvement NASA Exceptional Landings related training Consultant. Achievement Medal. programme. throughout the world including Europe, Russia and Japan. This week has been an enlightening and insightful experience for me and I can’t express how brilliant it was to be able to spend so much time with the astronauts. I loved learning all of these wonderful new things. - Kitto Maddrell, Mission Discovery Student In Photo: NASA Astronaut Steve Swanson, Commander of Expedition 40, during a spacewalk on 2007 shuttle mission STS-117. BASIC TRAINING Mission Discovery Basic Training includes: • NASA leadership • How to innovate • NASA team building • Space experiments, developments • How you fulfil your dreams & ambitions & spin-offs • How space exploration benefits life • Research, guided by experts on earth • Budgeting • The environment of space • Presentation skills • The experience of being in space • Cutting edge technology • What makes a great experiment • Inculcating the NASA ‘you can do it’ spirit • How the body adapts to space & hostile environments .01 .02 .03 NASA Team Building The Environment of Full Mission and Personal Space and Space Brief Development Shuttle Missions NASA Team Building, Experiments in space, Advanced Leadership Types, working in space and Technological Personal Development the crews’ first steps Communication and and First Crew towards mission Draft Crew Mission Assignment accomplishment Outlines EACH .04 .05 DAY Improving Life on Final Mission The Mission Earth Selection Discovery team will dine and Presentation Skills, The teams present their socialise with the How space can ideas to a prestigious mission Crew improve life on Earth panel of judges Members. Rewards for and how space the day will be made experiments can help and certificates increase our knowledge / prizes awarded of skeletal and muscle systems, ageing, growth, exercise, pain Arrival and Departure and rehabilitation times for each day are: Completion of mission 09:00am - 4:30pm presentations BISHOP HEDLEY HIGH SCHOOL Bishop Hedley High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school, established in 1967, and located in Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. Bishop Hedley is a member of the Eco-Schools. As a school, it has gained a bronze, silver and a 1st green flag. CAREERS AND STUDY The scientific focus of Mission Discovery will be of great advantage for careers and study in science, maths and the technologies, for example: • Anatomy • Medicine • Pharmaceutical Science • Biochemistry • Microbiology • Pharmacy • Biology • Molecular Biology • Physics • Biomedical Engineering • Neuroscience • Physiology • Chemistry • Pathology • Veterinary Medicine • Forensic Science & Drug Monitoring • Pharmacology • Zoology • Genetics Mission Discovery can be used towards your Duke of Edinburgh Gold as the residential award. The team are also happy to provide a personal statement or reference to assist you in your future applications; such as UCAS. MEET THE ASTRONAUTS Astronaut and International Space Astronaut and Space Shuttle Astronaut Yi So-yeon with Station Commander Mike Foale Commander Ken Ham with Mission Discovery student with Mission Discovery student Mission Discovery students Astronaut and International Space Astronaut Nicole Stott with Astronaut Jean-Jacques Favier Station Commander Scott Kelly Mission Discovery student with Mission Discovery student with Mission Discovery winner THE DESTINATION FOR YOUR IDEA People like me don’t win things like this. - Mahdi Baksh, Student from the winning team, 2012 We have carried out two student experiments on the ISS. The first experiment was to investigate whether slime mould would grow in 3D in the microgravity of space. Slime mould has amazing memory capacity is and can be used to solve complex mapping problems. This experiment revealed that mould grows more vigorously in space than on Earth. The second experiment, investigated the effectiveness of antibiotics in space. Astronaut Koichi Wakata performing The results indicate that antibiotics are more effective in our experiment in space, aboard the microgravity. International Space Station. 8 further Mission Discovery student experiments will be launched to the Space Station in June aboard the rocket SpaceX CRS-7. For any further information or questions, please contact: Will Parke ISSET 5 Herbert Terrace Penarth CF64 2AH UK Telephone: 029 2071 0295 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.isset.org.