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Thales Alenia Space, a global space manufacturer with facilities in Belfast, recently paid a visit to Ballymacash Primary School to encourage kids into engineering.

The initiative is called ‘MARSBalloon’ and is a UK-wide project, run annually, where school students get the opportunity to send experiments up to space.

TAS representatives from Belfast visited the school to help the students design and create their experiments, along with discussing the challenges of exploring space and running some really fun interactive challenges.

Ballymacash Primary pupils have the chance to fly experiments and test technologies that could one day be destined for Mars