ROCKET scientist school pupils have been getting a taste of hi-tech engineering after a visit from a NASA egghead.

As part of British Science Week, St Margaret’s Prep School, in Gosfield, welcomed a special visitor from NASA’s Artemis Programme.

Sian Cleaver, who grew up in Chelmsford and now lives in Germany working for Airbus, is an industrial manager for the Orion European Service Module.

Her team builds the service module which will carry the crew’s supplies on Nasa’s Orion spacecraft – used in the Artemis missions taking people back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

Sian, is also the aunt of four-year-old pupil Theo.

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All week the pupils in Years 3 to 6 had been working in teams to design an egg/rover lander.

During their science lessons they built and tested them, with Sian judging which team would be ‘awarded the contract from NASA’.

“Their energy and enthusiasm are something I will take back to work with me.

“The children were wonderful – they were all really polite and very creative with their egg landers.”