BIS President Gerry Web was delighted to present the two winners of the UK IAC Student Paper competition with their cash prizes. Undergraduate Eleonor Frost and post-graduate Thomas Cheney won the UK heats in May of this year and travelled to the 70th International Astronautical Congress held in Washington DC 21-25 October to present their papers at the global contest. They both visited the UK Pavilion to receive their prize money from Gerry. Thomas is at Northumbria University and won his prize for a paper on mechanisms to ensure equitable and universal access to space assets and indigenous on-orbit resources and infrastructure for all countries around the world, irrespective of their disposable budgets. Eleonor is studying at University College London and her winning paper was on a microgravity surgical workstation. As recorded elsewhere in this issue (p 21), Eleonor went on to win one of the six global prizes with this paper.
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