IT TURNS OUT that NASA’s final space shuttle flight has a hint of green to it, thanks to a number of connections to the Emerald Isle.
Science.ie has uncovered some rather interesting Irish links to the flight, which will take off this afternoon, weather permitting.
According to the site, the Atlantis will deliver equipment to the International Space Station, including CETSOL cartridges.
It transpires that a team at University College Dublin’s School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering will compare the results from experiements carried out with these cartridges to their own experiments.
Meanwhile, a student from Limerick Institute of Technology will have his science project on board – and he will even get to watch the launch from the NASA Kennedy Space Centre.
And then there’s the astronaut who played a 100-year-old tin whistle on board a shuttle…
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