I've extracted DNA from a strawberry and designed a mining facility on the Moon. NASA gave us a huge batch of resources and some very good information for classroom ideas.
We launched our rockets this afternoon: that was really spectacular! My rocket has to stay here because we used gunpowder to set it off and the residue isn't allowed back through customs. My crew trainer us going to hang onto it and launch it many more times instead.
We created Ablative Shields to protect a raw egg. The Ablative Shield protects capsules from burning up in re-entry. Same idea as the black tiles on a Space Shuttle. We has to choose from a range of layers; things like cork, aluminum foil, cotton wool, paper, spack filler. The shield could only be 1cm thick and had to protect the egg from 3500degree (Fahrenheit) heat for 3 minutes. Somehow our egg survived uncooked and unexploded!
We completed our Orion Mission tonight. 2.5 hours of stressful situations throughout a launch and land to the Moon. In these missions there are always some scheduled "anomalies", but we ended up with a few real ones, technically! However, we battled on to complete the mission on time for splash down, despite the computer screens in a few positions going blank. Computer screens at Mission Control tend to be important!
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