more information added on for last posts

Hello again,

I wanted to add some info on what I had written before. I just did not have a lot of time to write and feel badly that I am leaving so much stuff out!

Back to Tuesday....

Mars and space:

* It was named for the God Of War
* it has ice caps
* it is the most similar to Earth
*It actually has tilts and seasons. We spend exploration rovers when we are the closest and that only happens every two years.
* It takes SIX MONTHS TO GET THERE!
*If you stand on Mars, your feet will be warm (flip flops) and you need a hat on your head! There is a temp. difference!


About astronauts:

*Funny... every time we see a group of kids here at Camp (they have kids camps going on too) they all salute us!

*On Tuesday, we were in the museum for our group photo and we saw a family and a little 4 year said "Look Mommy! I see Astronauts!" What a rush! I can see how the Space Cowboys got a big head!

*They automatically take the appendix out of astronauts so they they don't have that issue in space.

* The astronauts loose bone density in space.

*The treadmill initially installed in the Space Shuttles were bolted to the floor. They kicked around so much that they put the Shuttle OUT OF ORBIT!!!!!

Math we learned:

We studied air traffic and were given the chance to understand how and why the air traffic controller does. They use international ZULO time to track planes all over the world.. universal time!


Today we have the aviation challenge. 40 feet up and have to jump on a zip-line! Oh help me God! I have done EVERYTHING else so far, so I have to do this too!

We will also have another Shuttle Mission. I am an International Space Station Scientist this time!

Cocktail hour is at 6 and the big wigs from Honeywell will be here! The guest speaker is Homer Hickem from October Sky/Rocket Boy fame!