Rocket Science Plants Seeds for Tomorrow’s Astronauts.

It’s rocket science but not as we know it as pupils from Cundall Manor School take part in the RHS Rocket Seed experiment championed by astronaut Tim Peake.

The experiment will be part of a national campaign by the RHS to encourage school children to get in to gardening. Lucky pupils from Form 1 will be testing the effects of space flight on a batch of seeds and monitoring their growth against a control batch.

Form 1 teacher, Adelle Rogerson, is helping co-ordinate the experiment at Cundall Manor.

She said: “It’s a great opportunity for our pupils to get out into the greenhouse and take part in something fun.”

“Tim Peake’s involvement has excited the children, not many people can say they have been involved in a space experiment.”

The experiment will last for six weeks and is designed as part of wider research, to weigh up whether it is possible to grow our own food on other planets, millions of miles away from Earth.

As part of the experiment the school will be updating their social media streams with how the rocket science is progressing.

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