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Marshall Space Flight Centre Programme

ISSET is currently offering exciting student programmes at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre. The experience is open to pupils of all ages who wish to explore the world’s biggest and most prestigious science and engineering programme.

The KSC experience includes hands-on activities such as the Astronaut Training Experience, tours and input from astronauts and space scientists. Pupils' interest and imagination are stimulated by the prospect of humans exploring the final frontier, leading edge technology involving spectacularly powerful rockets and the superb role models of astronauts.

The Kennedy Space Centre (KSC) is the world’s leading Spaceport. It is from KSC that astronauts were sent to the moon and someday will be sent to Mars and beyond.

These days NASA launches astronauts into Earth orbit aboard the Space Shuttle to live and work on the International Space Station. On the space station the astronauts perform hundreds of experiments to improve life on Earth and discover new ways to send humans to Mars.

KSC is based in a huge wildlife reserve that is home to alligators, armadillos, manatees, and an enormous range of other wildlife. Its neighbour is Cape Canaveral, the home of the early US space programme and the current launch site for satellites and probes that explore other planets and the far reaches of the solar system
 
 

1 Week at Kennedy Space Centre, Florida

Day 1: Sunday

• Sea World: "Save our Seas".
• Behind the scenes training programme

Day 2: Monday

• KSC Visitor Centre

Exploration Station
IMAX - International Space Station 3D

• Lunch - Dine with an Astronaut

• Cape Canaveral Tour

Historic launch site
Original Launch Control
Launch pads for un-manned rockets
Rocket Garden

Day 3: Tuesday

• KSC Visitor Centre

Rocket Garden Tour
IMAX Theatre
Education Resource Centre

• BCC Planetarium & Observatory

Solar Max
Laser Show - "Amazing Universe"
Observatory viewing

Day 4: Wednesday

• Cape Canaveral Wildlife Refuge

Guided tour
Refuge Field Trip programme
Lagoon Survey

• Kennedy Space Centre Saturn V Programme

Launch simulator
Apollo Saturn V Centre
Great Moon rocket scavenger hunt
Lunar theatre Moon landing presentation

Day 5: Thursday

• Astronaut Hall of Fame

Complete Astronaut Training eXperience (ATX)

Day 6: Friday

Beach & Shopping Day

Fly home (returning the following morning)

If you would be interested in bringing a group of students on this programme and would like more information, then please contact:

Julie Woodcock , ISSET
Tel: 02920 710295
E-mail: jwoodcock@isset.org