NASA Space Camp

Blog entry written by DJ Svetlik. DJ is 9 years old and a 4th grade student at Boca Raton Elementary . DJ attends the Saturday morning Multiplying Monkeys 1 class in our Weston Knowledge Center. DJ was accepted to attend NASA Space Camp in Huntsville, AL. DJ is also a VFR pilot.



I will go to Space Camp in the summer and the date will be July 2-4th. Just like a real astronaut, I will be put into 50 ft deep tank and I will be doing a practice repair for a satellite. Then the next day I will be in a space shuttle simulator and I will learn how to fly the space shuttle and how to land it. The next day after that I will learn how it feels how to be in no gravity. The math I learned form Math Monkey is important because if I have a emergency in the simulator and I have low fuel and the instruments fail I need to add or subtract how much fuel I have left to land. There are many other situations where I can use what I have learned for quick decisions a VFR pilot must make.