March 29th – The morning is nice and cool.  Blue skies in store for the rest of the day.  The student teams are up and starting their activities.  I touched base with each team.  Both teams have full days that end tonight with Shuttle Missions.  The middle school team (Team Europa) is working with rocked construction and the science of spaceflight this morning.  This afternoon they have a rope activity and then prep for their Orion Mission tonight.  The team faces a 2 hour mission on the Orion module from 7 to 9 pm.  It will be a long day, but looking at the students this morning, they are up for it.

The high school team (Team Elysium) is recovering from their night mission last night.  It was a bit stressful, but the team leaders were impressed with the students ability to roll with the punches and deal with the various problems thrown at them during the 1 hour mission on the Shuttle Enterprise.

 The team has a rope activity this morning and museum simulations.  They complete their Mission Bravo training this afternoon.  In addition they have presentation about Russian Space History and a robotics activity.  After supper they have additional presentation that run up to the time they begin their Bravo Mission at 8:30 pm.  It will be a late night for all our students.

I have the video from the HS Alpha Mission last night.  Tonight I will record both the MS and HS missions.

The picture above is from the Davidson Space Museum on Camp.  It shows the rocket engines.  The size is huge.  Each engine is about 5 meters across.