 ou will be training
along side fellow space explorers at an operational NASA space facility!
At Space Flight Adventure Camp you don't just hear what
 astronauts
do, you'll do some of the things astronauts do. You will work with
fellow space explorers to launch a "Mission to Mars" as well as build
and launch your own model rockets. In addition, you will explore the world
of robotics using the LEGO(c) MindStorms system and fly cross-country
using Microsoft Flight Simulator. That's not all! You will engineer a simulated rocket
launch in an actual NASA mission control room while seated behind a
computer console during the launch. You will also visit many of the
departments at NASA Wallops Flight Facility to learn what their role is
in launching rockets into space. In addition, you will tour the Navy Aegis
training center, NOAA Weather Command and Data Acquisition Center, NASA
and Virginia Commercial Space Flight launch facilities.For a news article on the camps, click here. Click on Photos to Enlarge
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Wallops Flight Facility-NASA Meteorology Division preparing for daily launch of a weather balloon with instrument box. |
| On tour of the aircraft used by NASA for research projects such as studies of the deforestation of the Amazon jungle and the warming of the South Pole. |  |
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The Mission Control Center where each camper has a role to play in a simulated rocket launch. |
| On a tour of the Wallops Flight Facility Rocket Manufacturing Building. Here the rocket nosecone, fuselage, and fins are manufactured by engineers and machinists. The rocket is then assembled with its computerized payload, etc. Each rocket is tested prior to launching. |
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