Watch live on Thursday, 13 September 2012, when winners of the YouTube Spacelab competition will see their experiments performed on board the ISS. The programme will be streamed live from London, England, and is hosted by Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society, USA.
Webcast starts 13:00 GMT – 15:30 CEST
ESA astronaut Frank De Winne will participate in the live event, transmitted from the International Space Station to the world via YouTube. De Winne, Head of the European Astronaut Centre, acted as one of Europe’s jurors of the international student competition.
The NASA, YouTube, ESA and Lenovo “YouTube SpaceLab” competition culminated in the March 2012 announcement of two global winners: Amr Mohamed from Alexandria, Egypt, and Dorothy Chen and Sara Ma, from Michigan, USA.
The spider experiment of 18-year-old Amr was the final EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa) winner. In May, Amr presented his experiment to ESA astronauts, European students and media at ESA’s astronaut centre in Cologne, Germany.
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