Hi! My name is Kyle. I am a student in Mr. Weiner's space club at West Middle School in Colorado Springs. At Kennedy Space Center I was lucky enough to see some of the buildings where they assemble rockets for space travel. We also saw the crawler. It goes less than one mile per hour. It takes 5 hours to go 3 mile to the launch pad. A rocket called the Saturn V is the largest rocket to ever go into space. It is powerful enough to go to the moon with a crew of three people and get the crew back to Earth safely.

The Saturn V has given us the chance have 12 men to walk on the moon during 6 different missions. In early missions, sometimes we would only orbit the Earth. From Neil Armstrong (the 1st) to Gene Cernann (the last) moon walkers had a face shield that was covered in 24K gold. At three atoms thick, the gold is only worth about $1.50. The American programs were called Mercury (one Astronaut) Gemini (two astronauts) and Apollo (three astronauts). Now we have the Shuttle program. I hope we go to Mars soon. At Kennedy I saw the lunar rover that was going to be used for Apollo 18. The one I saw had rubber tires. If it went to the moon that would not have worked. Our instructor told us that it would have had wire mesh tires. Rubber tire won't work on the moon because it does not have enough air pressure there. That's weird. I learned that the lunar rovers that we took to the moon will stay there forever unless we bring them back. If we took new batteries up there, we could hook up and drive. That's cool.

We have big and little satellites in space, from a basketball to a school bus in size. I found out they can tell us about everything from pollution to weather to land formations. Wow. Going to space can allow us to do things like separate chemicals, make new products to learning new things that we can't do on Earth. The Vehicle Assembly building, where space ships are put together, is so big that it has an American flag on the side of it that has stars that are 6 feet point to point, strips the size of a freeway lane and a blue part that is the size of an NBA basketball court. Before coming to Florida, I had no idea that Kennedy Space Center was a wildlife refuse. I think that is great. Now, technology and nature can go together. While on Kennedy, I was totally surprised to see endanger animals living around rockets. We saw Alligators, armadillos, cranes, egrets and more. I like animals.

Our instructor at Kennedy was cool. We earned space shuttle mission stickers for paying attention and giving the right answer. On the airplane ride home, we all got a autographed picture of astronaut John Herrington from our teacher, Mr. Weiner . He is the astronaut that came to our school during our school wide space week that we had just before going to Florida. Everyone should do as much space stuff as we do.