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Students visited the US Space and Rocket Centre Space Camp at Huntsville, Alabama which focuses on astronaut training.<\/p>\n
While there, they engaged with NASA\u2019s STEAM programs by taking part in a simulated spacefaring mission, and building model rockets.<\/p>\n
Other activities included launching rockets, wall climbing, scuba training, and multi axis training during which participants are suspended inside a three-ring rotation to simulate spacecraft tumble.<\/p>\n
The trip also took them to places like the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, and Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n
Students also got to meet astronauts including Charlie Duke, who is the 10th and youngest person to walk on the Moon.<\/p>\n
Eleven of the participating pupils were initially scheduled to attend the camp in September last year before a bus crash on the way to the airport ended the trip.<\/p>\n
The Loreto College Ballarat group were also declared the Most Outstanding Team to take part out of their program\u2019s contingent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE stars were the limit for a group of Loreto College Ballarat students who visited the US as part of a nearly-two-week NASA Space Camp excursion earlier this month. Twenty-one pupils took part in the initiative which focused on delivering science, technology, engineering, arts and maths, or STEAM, activities. Loreto College principal Michelle Brodrick was […]<\/p>\n