Spacelab finalists from Europe, the Middle East and Africa were invited on 16 May to the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, for a live call with ESA astronaut André Kuipers and NASA astronaut Don Pettit.

Space Lab, supported by ESA, was initiated by YouTube, NASA, Japan’s JAXA space agency, Space Adventures and Lenovo. It challenges students around the world to design a science experiment to be performed on the International Space Station.