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Robot Wars Extreme
The sixth Robot Wars Extreme started in November 2002. Take a look at all of the contestants, including Leicester's Raging Reality, on the Extreme site

Sumpthing
The fearsome pick-axe wielding killer robot, Sumpthing was built by three Leicester friends and first appeared on Robot Wars in 2000

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Beagle 2
The Beagle 2 project is the British led effort to land on Mars as part of the European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission, launched in June 2003.  Beagle 2 will land on Mars where its robotic arm (designed by a team at Leicester University) will take samples

British National Space Centre (BNSC)

Heavens Above
All the info you need to observe satellites such as the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle, spectacular events such as the dazzlingly bright flares from Iridium satellites as well as a wealth of other spaceflight and astronomical info

Moon Landings
Heard the rumours?  Ever wondered if you were watching heroic images or NASA fraud? 
At last conclusive proof from Stuff U Can Use.   Looks like the complex web of NASA lies is about to unravel!

National Space Centre
How to get there, ticket prices and open hours

Near Earth Objects (NEO) Information Centre
Provides services to the public, educators, media and scientists to encourage understanding and advancement of NEO science

Near Earth But Far Out
Joe Kaplinsky argues that the thing most likely to generate 'popular myths' about asteroid cover-ups, is the eccentric mission of the NEO Information Centre. Trying to figure out why such an obviously unnecessary body exists might easily drive people to conspiracy theories he says in a Spiked article (September 2003)

Space Now
Lots of space news and info from this National Space Centre run site

Space Research Centre
Details of projects of the Space Research Group of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester

Weird Space
We take a look at some of the spacey goings on in Leicester, plus 'How to get into Space' - dead or alive

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Incredible Adventures
Travel to the edge of space in the legendary MiG-25 "Foxbat" - Experience Zero-Gravity in the IL-76 MDK "Flying Laboratory" - Spend a day inside the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City using the simulators used by cosmonauts to prepare for space.

Space Adventures
Fly to the Space Station aboard a new Soyuz TMA spacecraft - if you've got £20 million to spare.

Win a Trip into Space
Enter UK company Starchaser Industries competition to win a sub-orbital flight into space. The lucky winner will join an experienced crew on board a Starchaser rocket entered into the X Prize competition

X Prize
A $10 million prize to get the space tourism industry off the ground.  The X Prize will be awarded to the first team that builds and launches a spaceship that can carry three people to 100k altitude, land safely and launch again within two weeks.

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