Sounds like a cool project for schools to get involved in. Nick is a Wiltshire-based astronomer (His Twitter-feed is here.).
(Read the full article at The Register)
Hunt for long-lost Apollo 10 moon lander adrift in space
Kids have been invited to join the hunt for a NASA mooncraft that has been lost in space for more than 40 years.
In a dry run for the successful Apollo 11 moon-landing mission, astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan aboard the Apollo 10
did everything Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong later did, apart from
actually land on the moon. The trio also set the record, which still
stands, for the fastest human beings have ever flown – 25,000mph.
Snoopy did an eight-hour lunar orbit, descended and ascended,
re-docked and was jettisoned towards the Sun along with the S-IVB engine
before Charlie Brown returned to Earth.
Nick Howes believes Snoopy is still out there, and he wants to
get kids to find it using the Faulkes Telescope Project run by
Glamorgan University. The telescopes are in Hawaii and Australia, so
students can look for Snoopy during their school day in the UK.
"Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science,
technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world
to talk about the women whose work they admire. This international day
of celebration helps people learn about the achievments of women in
STEM, inspiring others and creating new role models for young and old
alike."
