Well, I made it! Our flight landed at about 11:00 am. The Space Camp people picked us up and took us to our dorm to 'freshen up'. We were given a T-shirt, backpack, flash drive, water bottle, pen, etc. And oh yeah, our OWN SPACESUIT!!! Mine needed a little adjusting in the length!
Dr. Don Thomas was our first guest speaker of the day. He flew on 4 Space Shuttle missions. He talked about the fact that he applied to be astronaut 4 times before being accepted. He was 39 before he finished all the training.
Life Lesson- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!
Did you know that astronauts in the shuttle had to sleep with blindfolds on? They orbit the earth every 1.5 hours. So while they are trying to sleep they have 45 minutes of darkness, and 45 minutes of sunlight, over and over and over!
Below is a photo of my team. We are Zarya. Zarya is what they called the first parts of the International Space Center. It is also a former secret Soviet space program from the 1980's.
Life Lesson- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!
Did you know that astronauts in the shuttle had to sleep with blindfolds on? They orbit the earth every 1.5 hours. So while they are trying to sleep they have 45 minutes of darkness, and 45 minutes of sunlight, over and over and over!
Below is a photo of my team. We are Zarya. Zarya is what they called the first parts of the International Space Center. It is also a former secret Soviet space program from the 1980's.
We had a 'debriefing' about the Space Shuttle before dinner. Tomorrow we are going to perform a simulation using the Canada Arms on the Shuttle.
After dinner we listened to Todd May, the Program Manager for the Space Launch System (SLS). This is NASA's next big space project. By 2017 they hope to send an unmanned mission to deep space. By 2021 they plan on sending a crew into deep space. He even talked about sending a crew to Mars by 2036!
FYI- the moon is only 200 miles from Earth. That is less than from Saint Louis to Kansas City. Mars is 54 MILLION miles from Earth! WOW!
He talked a lot about past explorers and how children of today will be the 'Lewis and Clark' of the future, by exploring space.
TREKKIE FACT- James T Kirk was named after the explorer James Cook. He sailed near Antarctica and also Hawaii.
"Space is the new ocean, and I believe the United States must sail on it."- JFK
If space is the new ocean, then the solar system and planets are the continents and islands!
After dinner we listened to Todd May, the Program Manager for the Space Launch System (SLS). This is NASA's next big space project. By 2017 they hope to send an unmanned mission to deep space. By 2021 they plan on sending a crew into deep space. He even talked about sending a crew to Mars by 2036!
FYI- the moon is only 200 miles from Earth. That is less than from Saint Louis to Kansas City. Mars is 54 MILLION miles from Earth! WOW!
He talked a lot about past explorers and how children of today will be the 'Lewis and Clark' of the future, by exploring space.
TREKKIE FACT- James T Kirk was named after the explorer James Cook. He sailed near Antarctica and also Hawaii.
"Space is the new ocean, and I believe the United States must sail on it."- JFK
If space is the new ocean, then the solar system and planets are the continents and islands!