Reach for the stars - Young scientists jet to LA to present space projects

Young Irish scientists are heading for the stars as one is to have an asteroid named after him and six others are about to present a project to leading space engineers.

The team of fifth-year students at St Flannan’s College in Ennis, Co Clare, are jetting off today to Los Angeles to deliver a paper at the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference.

Their Space Elevator project won them second place in March in the group category for older students in the Nasa Ames Space Settlement competition, which attracted more than 2,500 global entries.