Day 3 - Tours and a Surprise Visit!

We started out the day working on our SLED and the teachers had fun on the POGO. POGO is a simulator used by NASA since the 1960's to simulate low gravity and weightlessness EVA maneuvers.

After this we went back up to our work room and heard a presentation from Matt Lemke. He talked to us about the scientific research that goes on at the ISS.

We were interrupted by astronaut Joe Acaba who has been back on the ground for 3 weeks now, having been on ISS for about 6 months. He answered questions we had and we got pictures with him.

Here's a video of Joe on ISS that was just released today about one of the experiments he was running.

Shortly after this we were split up and groups went to the VR and the Simulations of the Orion Capsule. After the Orion capsule visit, we walked through mission control.

Following this, we worked our way back to building 9 and built accelerometers and then went to go test them at the Kema boardwalk. This is a tourist area nearby on the shore of a coastal bay. Ben experienced his first roller coaster and the rest had fun feeling the g's!

We finished the day eating dinner at the boardwalk and watching the sunset on the way back to our hotel.

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