The Dunedin Space Programme is gearing up for space flight - or, at least, atmospheric flight. <\/p>\n
About 10 dry powder-powered rockets would be launched from Robin Hood Park tonight, Dunedin Space Programme co-ordinator Amadeo Enriquez Ballestero said. <\/p>\n
''We have a countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, - and then, boom,'' he said, of what can be expected. <\/p>\n
While the rockets made a spectacular display to those who witnessed them, they would not be visible from anywhere other than the immediate vicinity of Robin Hood Park, he said. <\/p>\n
Those who wanted to see them in flight should be at the park by about 8pm, and everyone was welcome, he said. <\/p>\n
The space programme had employed its own ''rocket mentor'', Dr Romain Garby, whose PhD was in rocket propulsion. <\/p>\n
About 30 children, most of them from Kavanagh College, attended the weekly programme at the Beverley Begg Observatory. <\/p>\n
The programme was designed to have ''fun with science'', Mr Enriquez Ballestero said. <\/p>\n
''Kids like blowing things up and most [people] say to that, `Well, no', but I say, `Well, yes, but in a particular way'. <\/p>\n
''We are choosing to do the right thing with science.'' <\/p>\n
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