ISSET is proud to announce that four times astronaut Major General Charles Bolden will be visiting the UK in January 2007 to be the key speaker at the Space For Inspiration conference.

Overcoming social deprivation and racial prejudice, Charlie Bolden has become a decorated military officer, a successful business personality and has commanded manned space flight missions; a truly amazing and out of this world career.

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ISSET is proud to announce the launch of the Edge into Space competition in partnership with Edge, the practical learning charity.

Edge into Space is an exciting competition offering the chance for students to experience the space science through their own projects and win the opportunity to meeting astronauts and working with scientists at NASA's Kennedy and Johnson Space Centres in Florida and Texas.

Teams of students in years 9-13 are eligible to participate from across the United Kingdom. Students of two to four people should gather together and come up with an idea for a product, process, object, development or procedure that could be used in space. That's not just rocket science, it's anything to improve life in space, or any kind of work in space that could make life better, here on Earth.

Entering is easy, through the Edge Into Space web site (www.edgeintospace.com). Submit your project idea by 19 March 2006 and you could be in Houston and Florida by July!