This masterclass uses the challenges of space exploration as the basis of an intensive day-long course designed to support sixth-form Physics students in their curriculum studies. 

The mission challenges that form the body of the narrative include; 

- Understanding gravity, launch, flight through interplanetary space (including spacecraft power systems), entry into the planetary atmosphere, the importance of magnetic fields, surface science experiments and the challenges of human survival in space.

These elements are used as contexts for curriculum topics including

- Newtonian mechanics, ideal gas behaviour, electrical power systems, gravitational theory, theory of elliptical orbits, forces and fields, the photoelectric effect and EM phenomena, inverse square laws and more.

During the day students will take part in exciting experiments and demonstrations as well as using teamwork and problem solving skills to address the questions that arise in this masterclass.