Ever wondered what the end of the Universe might actually look like? Why the number 42 is so significant? Or whether time travel really would put a stop to history as we know it? If so take a journey to the National Space Centre and discover The Hitchhiker's Guide to Our Galaxy this February half term… don’t forget your towel!
Visitors will be able to join the white mice, Frankie and Benjy, who have escaped from Earth before the premature termination of its programme, as they search for the answer to the ultimate question, the whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front.
The whole family can sit back in Space Now for a presentation that will treat your brain like a Pangalactic Gargleblaster explosion! Discover that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction in this fast-paced, action packed show. Join our Mission Commanders for a light-hearted, accessible and informative tour of the real research behind the cornerstones of space tourism and parallel universes to instant translation devices and sentient computers, this will be one trip definitely worth taking.
There will of course be Vogon Poetry Classes, where we challenge everybody to write some of the worst poetry in the Universe.
“Vogon poetry is the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent, of his poem, Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning, four of his audience members died of internal hemorrhaging, and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council, survived by gnawing one of his own legs off... The very worst poetry in the universe died along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex... in the destruction of the planet Earth."
To finish the day visitors can have a go at Slartibartfast’s Planet Building. Slartibartfast is a Magrathean, and a designer of planets. Join him for some amazing discussions on Fjords and of course to create your very own planet!
If that was not enough we of course will invite everybody to step into Milliways our restaurant at the end of the Universe for daily specials, that could include the select cuts of the Ameglian Major Cow.
Taking place from Saturday 19 February – Sunday 27 February. To find out more http://www.spacecentre.co.uk.
