Day 4

MW- We went to mission control room for our Alpha Mission. I was CAPCOM so I had to tell the pilot and commander many things! For the second mission, I was in the International Space Station (ISS) with the other two mission scientists and we did one experiment called alien toothpaste that looked really weird. Then, I sat on a "nebulizer chair" spun around really fast with sunglasses on and when I stopped and took the glasses off, my eyes kept moving around!

Thursday was a busy one! Matthew, as stated above, had a blast as did Gerson! Their team had 3 missions today (whew, they were exhausted) and successfully completed all of them!

The highlight of Thursday (possibly the week for some of the students) was Escape and Evasion where Team Von Tiesenhausen became Navy Seal and had to complete a night mission in full camouflage (look out, James Bond!) The planes and base were all secured, the bombs were successfully planted and everyone made it out alive, way to go!

While Team Von Tiesenhausen was busy finalizing missions and learning how to evade the enemy, both Team Orville and Team Wilbur were busy doing a final dogfight tournament and everyone did very well! KJ and Mimi advanced pretty far into the tournament, but ended up losing to some very talented pilots. I was quite jealous that both teams got to watch the new iMax movie, Hubble, right after lunch, but I caught up with them to launch their rockets and to ride the simulator to provide a satellite-like experience. The evening wrapped up with dinner and then Space Bowl, a Jeopardy-style game to review all they've learned this week.