Luke went on a great field trip on Friday after a 10 week co-op class called Mission to Mars. He had to have the class for preparation for this mission (hours in training) and also interviewed for his particular job on the mission. This was all great experience for a 5th grader! The Challenger Space Center is a very well kept secret in Wellington, Kansas. It's a museum, giving tribute to Christa McAuliffe, the teacher that died in the Challenger Space shuttle. It's also a fun simulator of NASA's mission control room and a space shuttle mission, where the crew even saved 2 crew members from a dangerous sandstorm on Mars, while sending out a remote control robot to test the air and learn more about the storm and environment of Mars. I was very glad Luke got this exciting experience and he had a lot of fun, too!
