Open 24 April to 26 September, 2010
- every Weekend and Bank Holiday
- every day during August with

a host of children's activities!

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Rocket and Space Event - 10th & 11th July
Rocket Workshops, Educational Talks, Exhibitors, Children's activities, Traders, plus much more...

Fancy Dress Competition

Everyone is welcome to participate in our Fancy Dress Competition for best dressed Science Fiction character. There will be a children and adult category and judging will take place at 4pm on each day. Prizes will be given.

2009 Fancy Dress Competition Winner 'Tuscan Raider' with The UK Garrison Star Wars

Speakers & Talks

TBA

Launch a Flying Saucer

with The Friends Society of Royal Gunpowder Mills

Dave Shayler

Spaceflight historian David J. Shayler, FBIS (Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society - or as Dave like to call it -Future Briton In Space!), was born in England in 1955. His life long interest in space exploration began by drawing rockets aged 5 but it was not until the launch of Apollo 8 to the moon in December 1968 that the interest for human space exploration became a passion. His first articles were published by the British Interplanetary Society in the late 1970s and in 1982 he created Astro Info Service website (www.astroinfoservice.co.uk) to focus his research efforts. His first book was published in 1987 and now has over 20 titles to his name including works on the American and Russian space programmes, the topics of space walking, women in space, and the human exploration of Mars.

In 1989 he applied as a cosmonaut candidate for the UK Project Juno programme with the Soviet Union (now Russia). The mission was to spend seven days in space aboard the space station Mir. Dave did not reach the final selection but progressed further than he expected. The mission was flown by Helen Sharman in May 1991. In support of his research Dave has visited NASA in the United States and the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia, where visits to space training facilities and handling real space hardware has provided a valuable insight into the activities of a space explorer and the realities of flying and living in space.