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This year’s Science Week will feature public talks by two astronauts. Christer Fuglesang from the European Space Agency is one of the guest speakers in the Science Week Lecture series. He will be giving a talk at Belvedere College in Dublin on 17 November about his biological experiments on the International Space Station. He will also be at the National Gallery in Dublin the following day to talk about “Space Careers – Life and Science in Space”.

And NASA astronaut Greg Johnson will be appearing at various locations around the country, including events at the CIT Nexus Centre in Cork, DIT in Dublin, the University of Limerick and the Institute of Technology in Carlow. He’s also in Ireland for the activation of the big dish at the National Space Centre, and to meet the winner of the “Name the Big Dish” competition.

The 32-metre dish will be the only large radio telescope available to students for educational purposes in Europe.

Read more on about these and other space and astronomy events on Science.ie, and find more events near you on the Science Week website.