Space walk!

Hello all! Today was a very very VERY exciting day!!! We did our Shuttle Discovery Mission and I was the one of the mission specialists. That meant that I was one that needed to go outside the shuttle and on a space walk to make a repair on the satellite. It was pretty amazing! I had to put on all of this gear and I could hardly move. (only sad thing was that the kids that are also here for Space Camp have the flu, so they are disinfecting the white space suits, so I did not get to wear the regular white suit). We were suspended in the air and moved around to simulate the movements and floating in space... it felt like I was going to fall out of my chair!! Amazing!!! There is a mission control unit and the flight personal and everyone in our group of 18 people all had a job in relation to the shuttle and the space station. The space station had to build parts of a new apparatus for a satellite. Very cool! Tomorrow we should find out what our jobs are for our second Shuttle Mission.

We had our group photos done today too and we also will be doing more astronaut training tomorrow... that includes the simulator of walking on the moon! There is a chair that they strap you into and it bounces to simulate the 1/6 gravity that the moon has.

We also had a guest speaker today. His name is Buckbee and he was the founder of the whole Space Camp. His job in the past was to be a PR person to 'control' the astronauts. He was friends with all of the old Space Cowboys and he share many super stories about it all. I thought it was funny when he said that John Glen drove a Hudson while the rest had race cars and Corvettes! He gave us a copy of his book about his experiences, and signed it for us. That was pretty cool too!

The food was better today. I was getting pretty tired of sandwiches, so the beef stroganoff we had tonight was a huge upgrade. It is so hot that most of the time we are not all that hungry.



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