Fake flights and hyped Zoomed meetings are all parents are left with as they try to claw back tens of thousands of dollars from failed space study programme Actura.
The Aussie-based company went into liquidation on Friday, leaving behind a trail of angry parents on both sides of the Tasman.
Dinner with an astronaut was just one of the once-in-a-lifetime promises made to high school students both here and in Australia for a two-week trip to a space school that’s not cleared for lift-off. All that parents are now left with are empty wallets and devastated children.
Actura, the Aussie-based company running the trip, is now in liquidation.
Operating since 2014, Actura boasted a 90 percent approval rating from students attending the company’s programmes.
“We were all positive about it a month ago and even to the last payment there was nothing that said to us it’s going pear-shaped,” said Sydney-based parent Gary Kessanis.
Its reputation with parents like Kessanis – who has paid Actura around $13,000 – is now in tatters.