Everything has gone to plan. We will shortly be boarding the aircraft at Gate D1. ETA Manchester is 9.30am but that may change.
Category: NASA
Arrangements for the return flight………
We check out of the hotel at 11am. We have a wait for our coach to take us to the airport at 2.30pm so we have decided to return to the cinema to take inContinue reading
Day 5…..afternoon and evening
After a final couple of hours going round the exhibits and visiting the NASA shop we departed for Kemah Boardwalk and the amusement park right next to the water. Wethen went on to our finalContinue reading
Day 5 continued…….
The After a guided tour of some of the exhibits we had the graduation ceremony for all our students. Just a couple of pictures from that ceremony……… The winning team.
Day 5……..final day at JSC NASA
An early morning tour of the Space Shuttle on display attached to a 747 aircraft. Following a brunch we had a talk and Q+A session with Astronaut Mike Foreman.
Day 4 …….evening activity
Bowling and yet more food! Check the score Eat food Strike
Day 4……Mars habitat cont.
Presenting to the judges
Day 4 pm…….the final competition
Having done some research on Mars design a habitat suitable for a group of Astronauts for 500days. Build a model of the habitat and present it to a panel of NASA staff justifying your designContinue reading
Day 4………the competition continues
Part 2 – Collecting rock samples using a radio controlled rover built by the students. Is this the winning team with 4 rocks collected???
Day 4………the competition continues
Part 1 ………driving a coded buggy on a course.
Day 3 …….evening
After a really challenging afternoons work what do we need? Answer……..Apparently retail therapy and a visit to the Baybrook Mall Shopping Centre (the Texas Trafford Centre – it’s big, but then everything is big inContinue reading
Day 3pm…part 2
The teams are now coding a buggy to drive a course. Tomorrow they compete against each other.
Day 3 pm part 1……..Mars Rover Challenge
The challenge is to build a robotic rock collector that will work on Mars. Tomorrow is testing!
Day 3…….a visit to the rocket park
The huge Saturn 5 rocket used to take astronauts to the Moon was most impressive.
Day 3…..launching our 2 stage rockets
The launch crew The observers with clinometer altimeter measuring instruments. The rockets also carried electronic altimeters. Blast off………sorry I’m unable to upload the video but look carefully and you might spot the rocket motor working.Continue reading
Day 3……an 8am start with a presentation.
The presentation this morning was from Andrzej Stewart, an engineer who spent some time living in a space environment on Earth. He was isolated on one of his two missions for 1 year which wasContinue reading
…..and again
At the dive training pool…………. Winner of the spiro challenge – the students will explain!!!
Day 2…….another busy day
The morning started with a visit to the Neutral Bouyancy Lab. where we saw divers preparing the pool and ISS mock up for 2 Astronauts in training. It was then back to the JohnsonContinue reading
Day 1…….afternoon activity.
This afternoon we’ve been learning about materials and their ability to prevent heat being transferred. Each team has had to buy samples of these materials to build a heat shield and a container to stopContinue reading
Still Day 1………
……….Model rocket building. All groups are set the challenge of working as engineers and scientists to build a rocket within a budget. Hopefully we will be launching these later in the week.
Day 1 continues……….
…………a tour of the huge JSC site taking in the laboratories and back up control centre for the ISS.
We made it………
The trans-Atlantic flight went well and we were most impressed with Singapore Airlines. We landed on time at Houston but security was a bit slow. We’ve now got 20 very tired young people sat downContinue reading
Weather Forecast
A screen-shot from the US Weather Underground Website. Any long range forecast always has errors so hopefully it won’t be as wet as it appears….bring your waterproofs. Temperatures look ok compared to the UK.
Don’t forget to bring…………..
Weather forecast to follow…..
Just a reminder about the meeting point for Sunday
A long range weather forecast will follow tomorrow.
Looking forward to the flight?
Taken last Sunday just after 10am. This is one of the aircraft used by Singapore Airline on the Manchester to Houston route. Average flight time is 9hrs 40mins. Family and friends can track the flight…..GoogleContinue reading