YouTube has just announced a new channel that truly deserves the overused adjective, “epic.” It’s called YouTube Space Lab, a partnership with Lenovo, Space Adventures, the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Space Lab will allow students to submit a science experiment by video, and a panel of scientists and astronauts, including Professor Stephen Hawking, will pick the best submissions. The winners’ experiments will be performed aboard the International Space Station and streamed live on YouTube to the whole world.
As if getting your own science experiment performed live on the ISS for the entire world wasn’t enough, there are also prizes like zero-G flights, Lenovo IdeaPad laptops, a trip to Japan to watch your experiment launched into space, or a cosmonaut training experience in Star City, Russia.
Space Lab is part of YouTube’s educational channels available at YouTube.com/EDU. Teachers can visit YouTube.com/Teachers to learn how to incorporate Space Lab into their classrooms.
Read more on the official YouTube blog.
