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National Space Centre

This Teachers TV film follows a class as they visit the National Space Centre in Leicester, which is devoted entirely to space and space exploration. The Year Seven class participates in a simulated space mission, taking on the roles of space station astronauts and ground-based mission controllers.

Led by the Centre's resident education staff, the students are asked to rendezvous with and investigate a comet. In the process they have to sharpen their inter-personal communication skills, deal with emergencies and perform some basic science experiments.

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