We went to the Challenger Learning Center on April 20, and it was the best trip I’ve ever been on. I was on the Data Team. The Data Team is the central messaging center of the shuttle or space station. The instructions to my job are very simple. Whenever a message pops up on the computer screen I have to either send it to the Communications Officer to be broadcasted to the space station, or I send it to the person on the shuttle it’s addressed to.
Our mission was to find comet Encke, launch a probe to it, and find out more info on the comet. Sadly the comet wasn’t found so we changed course and found a new comet. That wasn’t the only problem, though. The first was that the oxygen tanks weren’t working correctly and we had five minutes of air left, but literally in the last minute it was turned back on.
The other problem was that when we were going to launch the probe, we hit a meteor shower, but the probe evaded it. We saw the probe launch from the shuttle, too.
The trip had to be the best I was ever on, but wait! We also got to eat at the Purdue University Student Union and I bought pizza with cheese fries and an Oreo ice cream bar.
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