HOMER - Thanks to the combined efforts of dedicated volunteers, the Homer United Methodist Church, several generous donors, and much fund-raising, Banks County Cub Scout Pack 106 spent a recent weekend visiting the NASA Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. The U.S. Space and Rocket Center (USSRC) there is renowned as one of the most extensive space flight museums in the world.
As part of their experience, the pack stayed overnight in one of the "habitats" at the USSRC.
The boys attended classes and demonstrations on topics such as the effects of pressure in space, Sir Isaac Newton's Laws Of Motion, and the Saturn, Apollo and Shuttle missions. They toured the space museum, learned about Wernher von Braun and the history of space exploration, participated in a fact-finding treasure hunt in the museum and even built their own paper rockets that could be launched at home. They enjoyed an Imax movie called "Space Junk" and enjoyed rides like "G-Force" (which simulates the forces on the body during a rocket launch) and The Mars Rover Adventure (a ride designed to show what it might feel like to be on one of the Mars rovers as it is driven around the surface of Mars).
The Cub Scouts also got to see a Saturn V rocket in the Davidson Center for Space Exploration, which has been restored to its Apollo era readiness and is suspended only ten feet above the floor where it is so close one can almost touch it. It is 363 feet long and 33 feet in diameter, with a launch weight of 6,699,000 pounds.
Sunday
May 19th, 2024
10:32PM
