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22nd Feb 2021

Last half term Mr Routledge gave some of his students an amazing, out of this world opportunity!

As part of a research project, a researcher in the U.S purchased some cargo space from the NASA contractor Astrobotic. They were giving away space on a hard drive destined for the moon, in 10MB segments.

Mr Routledge was fortunate enough to get hold of one of these spaces. He decided that he would like to find a way to put some Great Baddow High School students’ English work on there so that it went to the moon!

Year 9 have been studying climate change in English and so it was a perfect opportunity for them to write to mankind, future generations or planet Earth, asking for change. Twenty-five students from Mr Routledge’s Year 7 and 9 classes have now had their work loaded onto the hard drive that will soon be aboard the lander. It is named the Peregrine lander and will be aboard a Vulcan rocket with the launch date planned for June 2021. 

The lander is aiming to land in the area of the Moon called the Lacus Mortis (lake of death) in July 2021. Mr Routledge is hoping to be sent a photograph of the lander arriving and the hard drive being delivered. He will no doubt share this with us when he can.

A big thank you to Mr Routledge for sharing this incredible opportunity with his students.