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For ATV’s final flight, ESA is releasing five educational videos based on the five visionaries that lent their name to Europe’s space freighters.
Jules Verne, Johannes Kepler, Edoardo Amaldi, Albert Einstein and Georges Lemaître are the source of inspiration to explain certain physics principles to young and old. Presented by Anu Ojha, the series offers teachers a good base and practical examples on how to introduce schoolchildren to concepts such as Kepler’s laws of planetary motion as well as special and general relativity.
Win a limited edition box-set of the complete videos, including pins and patches of all ATV missions, by uploading your own educational video demonstrating a principle of physics as a comment to this video.