A Tayside student is shooting for the stars after securing a visit to an Arctic space base.
Former Monifieth High School pupil Aidan Macrae, 20, is in second year of a degree in Aero Space Systems at Glasgow University.
The Fly A Rocket Challenge at Norway’s Andoya Space Centre saw him tasked with launching a small rocket into the troposphere — the lowest level of the Earth’s atmosphere.
He was the only Scot of the 24 successful applicants to the programme.
Teams were asked to study different aspects of testing and launching the rocket, which reached a height of eight kilometres before landing harmlessly in the sea off the coast of Norway.
Aidan said: “It was wonderful and the trip of a lifetime. It was exciting and not many people get to do something like this.”
The undergraduates were all from member countries of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canada and the project was supported by The Norwegian Centre for Space Related Education (NAROM), the Norwegian Space Agency (NSA) and the ESA.
The students also had lectures from staff connected with the NSA, the ESA and NAROM including a special visit by Jon Harr, of the NSA, who worked at the Guiana Space Centre, in French Guiana.
