Space Food

The students seem to be eating well. We chaperones have enjoyed the Space Camp lunches we've had. The food is meant to reflect the cuisine of one of the ISS countries each day.  Not so sure about the colour of some of the soft drinks they've been having though!

Space Cadets in Action II

Ablative Shielding Testing

Wednesday II - Holderer

Dan and Prakash take command

Holderer Charlie Mission Control

Kitting out for the EVA

Apologies to the families of the mission specialists in the alpha mission. Who may have burnt up during re-entry. Our condolences. - Anurag, EVA Officer 

Starting to miss home... but really don't want to leave this place! All the activities so far have been exciting, the missions were great, and the food isn't too bad either - Sachin

Holderer Charlie Mission EVA - were they allowed back in to the orbiter before landing is time?

Wednesday I

Jake O

Another very busy day for the students on the Advanced Space Academy programme, with lots of missions being completed so students are in their flight suits. Managed to get a few photos and a quick word with some of them. All seems to be going well and everyone is enjoying themselves.

The trainers were really encouraging to get you to face fears - Ethan 

A successful landing for Ethan W-A

In Bravo mission an SSME failure jumped both mission control and the orbiter but we managed to deal with it... GG BRAH- Jay

"The activities are even better than I thought they would be!" - James T 

Von Tiesenhausen ready for Delta Mission

Ablative Shield Testing

Will the egg (passengers) survive the heat?

The egg was good whilst it lasted - Arnav

I am now more sweat than human - Ollie P

SCUBA DIVING WAS AWESOME! - Dexter

Fitting the next shield to be tested

Tuesday

1/6 Gravity chair to practise walking on the moon

"Hello I am the night time team leader for team Von Tiesenhausen. I am lucky to have 16 wonderful boys on my team. They are some of the most well mannered young men. This week they will be participating in some team building challenges, as well as engineering challenges against other Advanced Academy teams. Some of the activities that they will be participating in are: rocketry challenge, ablative shield, pamper pole, zip line, and a 3 hours mission known as Extended Duration Mission. I am looking forward to the rest of my week with them."  K.C.

Sam takes on the zip wire

"I am Andrew Hall, the day time crew trainer, and I am very excited to have this team. I always enjoy having groups from other countries such as the UK and these gentlemen have been outstanding and I am very excited to see how they do on their simulated shuttle missions. I am confident they will do well!"  Andrew (Von Tiesenhausen)

Conquered!

"Hello! I am the day team leader for Team Holderer. These boys are wonderful. They are incredibly well-mannered but still know when to joke around. We just finished the zip line and all of them at least climbed our 50 foot tower. I'm definitely looking forward to spending the rest of the week with them." -Tosha Boyd.

The zip line was terrifying, but I was glad that I did it in the end - Sam

The zip line was a great part of the trip and Space Camp, even with the short amount of free time, makes sure you get the most you can out of it. - Daniel O

The zip line was very fun, and so was mission control , but the toilets and showers are very disgusting...... Prakash (clarification of point - 400+ boys using area, so...)

Long hours but the simulations are very enjoyable - Ollie P

The mash is really nice - Owen

I liked from the top of the Space Shot - Adam

Dinner at 4:30 - that's a new one! - Anurag

Bravo training was awesome - Kieret 

Scuba diving was really fun and kinda a strange experience - Jake F

We just went on Space Shot which I didn't think I would enjoy, however it was really fun and you could see the whole camp - Rory 

Being a mission specialist on the orbiter I was able to use the Canadarm and I was able to manoeuvre myself to repair the satellite - Rohan (Canadarm also known as the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System)

I've had a spacey time - Ethan 

The simulators and the centrifuge were really good Eef

Area 51 was really good - Dominic

A true experience of what space is like - Prateek

You completed one challenge right? We completed four - Julien

It's really enjoyable so far the flight simulations have been really good - Nari

Looking forward to all the missions! - Arnav

They don't understand our humour - Mark 

The look on some people's faces on the 1/6 chair! - Sachin

Space Cadets in Action

Not sure how well these clips will play!

 

Monday - Von Tiesenhausen

The pilots were whisked away the moment we started talking to them to head over to the aviation challenge site for their training, but we caught up with the mission specialists doing their scuba training to simulate EVAs.

A little nervous before the scuba?

Swim Test

Learning to breathe

Seems to work

Jibril tries scuba for the first time

Here's what their evening counsellor had to say about the team

"Hello I am the night time team leader for team Von Tiesenhausen. I am lucky to have 16 wonderful boys on my team. They are some of the most well mannered young men. This week they will be participating in some team building challenges, as well as engineering challenges against other Advanced Academy teams. Some of the activities that they will be participating in are: rocketry challenge, ablative shield, pamper pole, zip line, and a 3 hours mission known as Extended Duration Mission. I am looking forward to the rest of my week with them."  K.C. 

Dexter taking things easy

Rohan relaxing

Shooting hoops with a bowling ball!