Day 3

What a great start to the day! Zip-line from a tower into the water and the hello-dunker! Both activities designed to simulate escaping from a helicopter. The helo-dunker is a big cylinder, like a barrel shaped helicopter, that rolls when it meets the water and fills with water. Good to know how to escape!

Next into IMAX to see Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon. It was an interesting look nyo the history of the Moon and what may be ahead. 

Our Orion Mission, which we trained for today, is set up as what NASA is really looking towards doing in the future.

This afternoon we went on the astronaut simulators: the one-sixth gravity Moon chair and That Spinning Thing"! So much fun!

A visit to the Davidson Center on site was incredible.  It houses a real Saturn V rocket - such an immense size! This is a terrific museum with a heap of hands-on exhibits and capsules / capsule simulators to climb in.  A few are a little tricky to climb back out of....such small spaces to survive for days!

Most of today's photos are stuck on my camera so will have to add them later on.

This has to be the most fabulous PD event I will ever have the privilege to attend!