Rockets at the Mailbox
Members of the Astrophysics research group and the University's Astronomical Society took over the BBC Birmingham's Public space for two weekends of astronomy related activities. This was part of the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of the BBC television show "The Sky at Night" - a show that is produced at the Birmingham centre. Over the course of four days some 2,000 members of the general public were treated to a variety of fun activities. These events included the chance to build and launch their own rockets that were propelled upwards by compressed air, land the space shuttle on a simulator, look at photographic plates of the Universe and hunt around the BBC centre for the planets of our solar system.
Gallery uses Hoverbox.