We are counting down the days until Sunday 6 September
 The Mission:  send a space-craft to 20km above the earth using a high-altitude weather balloon. 

Andover Space Programme is an idea devised by Tom Mansfield (Upstart Theatre) for his 2019 Artist In Residence project ‘CAS:AIR There’s a Bigger Picture Out There’. CAS:AIR is our annually repeating programme focused on engaging local people in the arts. Tom worked with Andover Young Carers and the Picket Twenty Fillies (W.I.) to name, design and construct a spacecraft using a high altitude weather balloon. Andover Young Carer’s named the spacecraft SpaceMcSpayceFace!

Carrying a payload of messages from Andover young people and their families, as well as cameras to film its 3hr journey, Mansfield will attempt to recover the craft and its footage for a display at Winchester Science Centre. Andover Radio 95.9FM is will be covering the event, and providing a car for the chase!