We arrived in Dover ready to board a coach with 50 other Science teachers from around the UK on Friday afternoon. A pleasant ferry journey and a short trip on a coach once we got into Calais saw us heading to Belgium towards the Euro Space Centre!
Why did we go?!
Well you see, it is our aim to one day take students like yourselves to join us on our next trip to Euro Space. Exciting? Yes it really is!!!
We had such an awesome time, we took a tour of Euro Space which showed us all of the amazing artifacts and replicas that enable space exploration and travel, those space suits look heavy!
We had the chance to join mission control as we took a simulated rocket launch. Let me tell you, being Commander of the space shuttle is an adrenaline fuelled rush! Have you ever been in charge of hundreds of buttons, with other lives in your hands whilst you are trying to follow instructions from mission control, battle against computers and fuel cells not operating properly and trying your hardest to locate the right button in time before it all goes wrong? I've never had so much fun whilst learning about Space travel before!
We also built rockets, sampled the anti-gravity wall, the moon walk simulator (are you good at bunny hopping?), the multi-axis chair and the spinning chair. Little tip, do these before lunch...
Next time, will you be joining us?
