Day 7

Day 7

Lights on at 8:00, and ready to go by 8:30 sharp. The teachers had convinced us this was going to be a brutal experience so we all braced ourselves for the worst. Breakfast was the first sign that we had been lied to. ‘It’s extremely processed’ claimed Mr Roberts. ‘Kids were craving salad by the end of the week’ said Mrs Mengler. The buffet was filled with many enjoyable foods such as scrambled eggs, hash browns, cereals of all sorts, cinnamon toast and many other breakfast goods.

After a very fulfilling meal, we were divided into groups of 4 and thrown into our first rotation of mission training in which we started to learn about how everything works. Some of the mission training included: piloting the space shuttle, doing a simulated space walk and controlling the space shuttle from mission control. There were many complicated yet common problems that astronauts faced while up in space, and we were beginning to learn the process in how to fix them. The excessive amount of buttons that seem to spread along every possible wall confused pretty much all of us and most times the solution was laid out in a complicated matter which still continued to confuse us even more. After we had completed one of the tasks our team had been assigned, we continued into our second rotation which gave a chance to experience new things and new scenery. (lunch). Lunch was finished and half of the Leeming group got on a bus to a place called Area 51.

 Here we were assigned 2 team building tasks and as a group we completed each task with much anticipation and eagerness. It was a most enjoyable experience for all, but even better when we had to watch Logan mimic actions with no hands as we had all been restricted to no talking. Another bus ride brought us back to Space Camp where we had the opportunity to sit in a real size cinema and watch a documentary about storm/tornado chasers. Many of us took this as an opportunity to regain on sleep we had lost. When the documentary had finished we were rushed back into our third rotation of mission training, and straight after that we completed our last rotation of training for the day. (dinner). The night was coming to an end as you could begin to see the lack of motivation show, while tiredness began to overtake some of us. We began finishing the night with a presentation on fuel cells which brought a spark to some but drained the much needed energy of others. We concluded the night with one final task which involved the design and construction of a single or double staged rocket. A long and packed 14 hour day left most of us dying to get into bed.

 

 

By Lillian and Shauna.