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Google have announced the arrival of “YouTube Space Lab”, a new channel for users to explore videos from the scientific world “and beyond”.
The “new galactic channel” will enable viewers to look at scientific experiments taking place on the International Space Station (ISS), and to celebrate its launch, there is also a competition taking place.
Students are invited to “come up with an idea for a science experiment that can be conducted in space and upload it to YouTube by December 7, 2011.”
Entries will then be judged by the YouTube community, as well as a panel of “distinguished scientists, astronauts and expert judges, including Professor Stephen Hawking.”
The winning entry will then be performed on the ISS and streamed live on YouTube in 2012.
Other prizes are a Lenova laptop and a choice of either attending the experiment taking place aboard the ISS in Japan, or undergoing astronaut training in Star City, Russia.
Further details on how to enter the competition can be found here.
The new channel is aimed at all space enthusiasts as well as teachers, who can also visit the teacher’s channel for information on how to incorporate videos into the classroom.
Space Lab has a number of features that anyone with an interest in all things spacey will love, including daily pictures from NASA, video clips and technology related space articles.
Entrants for the competition must be aged between 14 to 18-years-old and the astronaut prize is only allowed to be claimed once the winner has turned 18.
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