World Space Week runs from the 4th to 10th October and organisations worldwide are encouraged to arrange events to promote the space industry. This year Warrington based award winning charity 4wardfutures held a series of events around the theme of Future Careers every day throughout the week at their virtual Space Expo. Unique amongst NSC members, 4wardfutures uses Space as a way of making young people, aged 6 to 25, aware of some of the present and future careers available. Following on from their successful Create a Life on Mars (CALOM) project their latest creation is a virtual Space Expo.
The Space Expo is a permanent event that is open 24 by 7 worldwide and given it’s nature has created a lot of interest. The more than 70 exhibitors at the World Space Week events included space related organisations, space companies covering everything from launchers and spacecraft to human studies and insurance, universities, student societies, award winning space architects and artists as well as work by young people. Exhibitors were not only UK based, there were also exhibitors from Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA. Local exhibitors include the Asteroid Mining Corporation, GTI Space, Arnmore, ManSEDS, SpaceSpecialists, STFC, and the NSC.
The World Space Week events were webinars with a wide range of presenters covering topics such Careers in Space, Design in Space, 3D Printed Habitats and Why are we going to Space? There were also company webinars from Inmarsat, ICEYE, Craft Prospect and Omanos, AAC ClydeSpace and Nonfiction. All the webinars were recorded.
NSC Chairman Bob Morris “Via our various contacts we helped introduce 4wardfutures and the Space Expo to the space industry nationally and internationally and as the Expo is a permanent event we will continue to do so. To have a stand all you have to do is supply 4wardfutures with the information that you want displayed on your stand and that’s it. This is a great opportunity to promote yourself worldwide and I would strongly recommend that our members participate in this”
To visit the Space Expo and see the webinars recordings go to https://www.4wardfutures.org.uk/space-careers-expo for more information on exhibiting at the Space Expo contact Mark Waters mark@4wardfutures.org.uk or Bob Morris bob.morris@thensc-uk.com