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Ever wondered how you might bake bread in zero gravity? Or why spacecraft rely on the same materials you find in your kitchen?

Baking in Space invites you on a delicious, mind-expanding adventure where baking collides with the extreme challenges of space exploration, and the urgent needs of sustainable living on Earth.

Join aerospace engineer and Great British Bake Off finalist Andrew Smyth, scientist and space explorer Dr. Niamh Shaw, and special guests Dr. Lisa McNamee (space medicine specialist), EIRSAT-1 team who completed Ireland’s first ever satellite mission and top ESA guests as they whisk audiences away with live baking experiments, surprising science, and extraordinary stories from the frontier of human discovery.

This FREE event, taking place at Dundalk Community Building, Co. Louth on Nov 9th at 3pm, and in Dublin at the F@ Centre in Rialto on Sat Nov 8th at 3pm, (as part of the ‘C’mere Till I Tell Ya’ festival), Baking in Space is the flagship event of the Town Scientist Science Week programme (funded under the 2024 Discover Programme), dedicated to bringing science into everyday family life.

Expect a fun, interactive 90-minute experience, where audiences will taste their way through the real-world engineering behind future Moon missions, explore how astronauts prepare food and protect their health in deep space, and discover how lessons learned beyond Earth can help us live more sustainably here at home.

Family-friendly, thought-provoking, and packed with hands-on participation, Baking in Space proves that science isn’t just in laboratories or outer space — it’s right in your kitchen, ready to be explored.