I'm Kat. Our space club went to Orlando, Florida. We went to Kennedy Space Center and Space Camp. I learned that Alan Sheppard was the first American in Space. He was only up for 15 minutes. Wow, kinda a short time! John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. My teacher Mr. Weiner has a piece of the heat shield from his ship Friendship VII and a newspaper from when he flew. In class, we have compared shuttle tiles to a Mercury heat shield. Now that is some difference. Shields burn up and the tiles reflects heat.

Gene Cernann was the last man to walk of the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first. Only Americans have been to the moon.

At Kennedy, I was surprised by the 2nd largest building in the world in volume called the VAB or Vehicle Assembly Building. Three and a half Empire State Buildings would fit inside!! I was surprised by the biggest spaceship ever built called the Saturn V rocket. We now know that NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. An EVA [extravehicular activity] is the same as a space walk. A satellite can range in size from a basketball to a school bus. Did you know that the crawler that takes the shuttle to the launch pad has traveled over 2500 miles on its three mile trip from the VAB tothe launch pad and back to the VAB? Well, it has!! Did you know that the Apollo space suit weighs 200 pounds? Well, it does!! I think I learned a lot more about space with my friends and classmates in Florida. I even got to swim in the Atlantic Ocean at Cocoa beach.