My trip to NASA was a success. I learned many interesting facts in this program. I learned many things about the clean rooms, which are free of tiny particles that might damage the instruments that will be sent into space. I learned how to interview interesting people who work for NASA and GSFC. I learned how to make a comet with dry ice, which is frozen carbon dioxide (CO2). This program called the SUNBEAMS, has taught me many things I never heard of and never saw. This program has also taught me how to communicate and work with others. I learned many skills that you may need in the future, like mathematics, science,and physics. It also taught me how to pick something that you really want to do in the future that will pay you alot of money. I am really glad I went on this trip to GSFC and NASA.
On my trip to the Goddard Space and Flight Center I learned so many interesting facts about satillites, comets, meteorites, and craters. We first arrived on Tuesday, Febuary 16. We didn't know where we were going or what projects we were going to work on, but let me tell you , we had no idea it would be this fun! When we enterd a small room we each got a small notebook with five dividers inside. After we sat down, we met Mrs. Stokes who would be our teacher for the rest of the week. She introduced herself and we talked a bit. That day we were to learn how to interview a person. Mrs. Stokes gave us an interview chart and we practiced interviewing her. On Wednesday we learned how computers communicate with each other. Here is an example, if there was a huge telescope, designed to take pictures of the tail of any comet that went by, how would it translate that information to another computer. We learned that computers communicate with series of combinations only containing zeros(0) and ones(1). Later on, we made craters with diffrent impactors to see if speed+size determines the size of the crater left after impact, which was a very fun project to do. On Thursday, we made a "meteorite" with Play-Doh and diffrent colored beads that represented the elements that are found in meteorites. After that, we swiched and took slices out of the "meteorite" and tried to identify the kind of meteorite it was supposed to be. I loved this whole week and if I could do it again, I wouldn't change a thing.
