Dr Simon Foster is the Outreach Officer for the Physics Department at Imperial College London. Simon is a qualified rocket scientist and has taught physics and astronomy in primary and secondary schools.
Simon took part in this year’s stargazing live events at the Simon Langton School for boys in Canterbury. One of this year’s themes was rockets and how humans can get satellites and observatories into space to discover the secrets of the universe. To this end, Simon took along his rocket kits and made rocket fuel with visitors on the night as well as showing pieces of the Cluster I satellite which was destroyed on the maiden launch of the Ariane 5 rocket.
One young girl who was visiting the space centre said “I got to see Jupiter and learnt how to make rocket fuel – it was awesome”