Space Camp Photos

The accommodation "Habitat 1" at Space Camp. Students are bunking with each other in rooms of 6-8. They are mainly with other Cashmere High Students and seperated into the Male and Female Living Quarters. The whole design of the habitat is as if we are on a space station of a colony on another planet.

Full Scale model of a Saturn V rocket that is on the grounds of the US Space and Rocket Center. There is one of the three remaining Saturn V rockets in the building behind this model lying on its side in each segment. Photos of this to come! As part of the Space Camp the students are basically living within the grounds of the US Space and Rocket center and all their activities take place within this center.

One group of our students having started the Space Camp program proper as of Sunday afternoon 2:30pm local time. They are looking very professional in their Jump Suits.

The students have now completed their orientation and are into their programs that run from 7am-10pm each day. Part of these programs are the simulators, which until now we believe to be good however after a behind the scences tour for Tom and Louisa, we can now report they are amazing. It is hard to describe how much time and effort, let alone technology has been put into creating this advanced space academy. Students will be working in full size model simulators of Shuttles, Discovery, Endeavor and Challenger. there are also full size mock up of the payload bays and working in harnesses suspended from a moving track to fix a satellite. This is really only scratching the surface, below are some pics from our tour this evening.

Tuesday 3rd April - Climbing Wall day for all students and some simulators

Students getting ready to team belay for their fellow climbers on the wall

Josh Lynn and Nick Cheesebrough climbing together on the wall. They are tethered by a velcro strap to each other so the aim is to climb as a team and not rip the velcro

Katie and Bry getting ready to climb the wall together

Jonathan (Right) and Kamen (Left) successfully climbing the wall together.






The next task for another of our teams of students was to complete some simulations in what is called the Astrotek building. This houses mainly simulators designed to help astronauts experience weightlessness in Space. Our first group of Victor, Izzy, Millie, Josh C, Charlotte were working on the 1/6 gravity chair which simulates the feeling of walking on the moon.

Izzy trying to keep in a straight line on the chair without giggling. Apologies for the blurry photo however she moves quick that one!
Adam and Seth later has a training on the Multi axis machine

Wednesday afternoon and the last of our students, Nick, Jonathan, Anna and Bry, are preparing to dive in their Scuba session - individual photos are on the Scuba page

 

Thursday a Space Camp - Today was a bit of a strange day for us as teachers and photographers as they changed the students programs without letting us know so we missed a lot of the photo opportunities. Not to worry though as their camp counselors take a mass of photos however we wont have access so these until the weekend. As soon as I get access I will endeavor to upload some from the rocket launchers, missions and other activities from the whole week.

Today I did get a photo of Josh L with his winning model rocket that flew the highest and furthest in his group.

The group known as Von Teisenhausen - Josh L, Jonathan, Kamen, Bry, Katie, Andrew, Nick and Anna were all treated to pizza by their Team Leader (Camp counselor) prior to their Extended Mission (3hrs) in the simulators

The old and the new space programs - interestingly one of the exhibits here at the Space and Rocket center is the new designs that NASA have for returning to the moon for the first time since the last Apollo program. It will be known as the Orion project and is a return to the re-entry command module as on the Apollo program. Below are photos of the Apollo command module from Apollo 16 after re-entry and then the new Orion module and rocket assembly. The apollo command module holds 3 people and the new orion will hold 6.