{"id":10489,"date":"2015-12-14T08:32:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T07:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=10489"},"modified":"2015-12-14T08:33:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T07:33:32","slug":"big-launch-event-at-w5-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2015\/12\/big-launch-event-at-w5-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Launch Event at W5 Belfast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Join W5 on Tuesday 15 December for one big day of space-related science and awesome astronomical activities to celebrate the launch of the Principa mission which will see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ESATimPeake\/\">Tim Peake<\/a> become the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EuropeanSpaceAgency\/\">European Space Agency<\/a>&#8216;s first British astronaut!<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/press9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-10490\" title=\"press\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/press9-723x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a>Watch the rocket launch live from screens inside W5, learn about rockets with Scientific Sue, meet the experts from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/QueensUniversityBelfast\/\">Queen&#8217;s University Belfast<\/a> Astrophysics Research Centre,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/culturetechfest\/\">Culture Tech Festival<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StemAware\/\">STEM Aware<\/a> and more!<\/p>\n<p>As part of our celebration on launch day, W5 is offering free admission for any child dressed as an astronaut on the 15th December 2015 when accompanied by a fee-paying adult. The building will be filled with talks, activities, workshops, competitions and photo opportunities which means that there will be something to suit people of all ages!<\/p>\n<p>The star attraction of the day however, will be a visit from ESA\u00a0astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy. Jean-Francois has been on three Space Shuttle missions and will be giving a number of talks and meeting schools and the public throughout the day!<\/p>\n<p>For further information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w5online.co.uk\/fs\/doc\/Destination_Space_-_Flyer.pdf\">http:\/\/www.w5online.co.uk\/fs\/doc\/Destination_Space_-_Flyer.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join W5 on Tuesday 15 December for one big day of space-related science and awesome astronomical activities to celebrate the launch of the Principa mission which will see\u00a0Tim Peake become the\u00a0European Space Agency&#8216;s first British astronaut! Watch the rocket launch live from screens inside W5, learn about rockets with Scientific Sue, meet the experts from\u00a0Queen&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2015\/12\/big-launch-event-at-w5-belfast\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10493,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489\/revisions\/10493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}