One giant leap for Irish teachers at NASA centre

THREE Irish science teachers got a taste of what it’s like to walk on the moon when they spent a week at an astronaut-training centre in the United States.

Helen Corbett, Chris Garvey and Joanne Raftery left their schools behind at the end of June to take part in a scholarship programme with 140 of their peers from 17 countries at the US Space & Rocket Centre.

As well as a series of classes, lab exercises and demonstrations, the group got to test some of the simulators used by astronauts during their training with NASA.