Girl guides go for launch

Space challenges aim to entice young women into science.

An unmanned rocket built by a 13-year-old UK girl guide successfully took off on 6 May at the National Space Centre in Leicester. The craft, made from paper and sticky tape, and powered by pressurized carbon dioxide from an indigestion tablet packed inside an empty film cartridge, reached a height of several metres before it fell back to Earth.

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Girl guides go for launch

Space challenges aim to entice young women into science.

An unmanned rocket built by a 13-year-old UK girl guide successfully took off on 6 May at the National Space Centre in Leicester. The craft, made from paper and sticky tape, and powered by pressurized carbon dioxide from an indigestion tablet packed inside an empty film cartridge, reached a height of several metres before it fell back to Earth.

Read the story here.

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