Balloons for Space students
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Deep in the woods of northern Sweden, space students from across Europe are getting a unique chance to test their science and engineering projects, as helium filled balloons launch them 29.000 meters up into the sky.
This activity is part of an ESA education programme to allow students to familirise with space business, to become during a few days scientists, engineers or technicians working in the space domain.
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a PDF file under : http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS628311.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under : http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/Student_Ballons_TV_06-01-09_wmplow.wmv
More backgroud information can be found on: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMS3LBDNRF_index_0.html

Balloons for space students
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TEXT Welcome to Kiruna, in the north of Sweden. Here, in a hanger deep in the arctic woods, students from across Europe are performing the last tests before launching their experiments on high altitude balloons.
This annual project, known as BEXUS, is one of the many educational programmes backed by the European Space Agency, and the Swedish and German agencies in this case, to get young Europeans interested in space.
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CLIP Helen Page, ESA Education Office
Bexus is an excellent opportunity for university students. It really offers them, within a short space of time, a complete activity. So they can have an idea, they design the experiment, build it, test it, then they get to see it fly, they get it back, they can analyse the results, and write a report, its the full package. And it's just what a scientist or engineer might do in their real career.
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TEXT Their experiments cover different areas w