Pupils from St Chad’s school blasted off the festival in style when they boarded the USS CLC for the trip of a lifetime: a tour of the universe from its birth to its death.

  
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Using a 3D computer model of the known universe the intrepid explorers found themselves dumped 200 light years from home, desperately searching for a familiar star to guide them home. They witnessed the birth of the universe in the Big Bang, flew through stellar nurseries and witnessed the death of the sun. They talked to Mercury, photographed Venus and visited several of our moon’s top attractions. They were able to monitor the probes and satellites littering our solar system and explore violent Jovian storms.  The trip was marred by some minor turbulence as the ship failed to detect a nearby black hole.

 
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The passengers compiled poems illustrated with photos taken by their complimentary camera, our congratulations to all involved: the force was with you.