Teen designers to present US paper on space colony

A space colony for the super-rich more than 500km above the Earth and catering for 40,000 people has scooped a major prize and won its teenage designers a trip to Washington DC.

Four students from St Flannan’s College in Ennis have won second place in their category at the elite international Nasa/Ames annual “Space Settlement Design” competition.

Entrants had to design a self-sufficient space colony capable of housing thousands of inhabitants.