Shazer at the flight simulator.
Our little astronauts.
Making a commemorative pin.
Shazer is currently reading a biography about the Wright Brothers and doing a report on them. He is way into aviation right now. We're planning on taking him to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson soon.
They had a special reading of the Cat in the Hat: There's No Place Like Space (which was not written by Dr. Seuss by the way).
I thought Sally had overcome her fear of large costumed characters but this cat was quite terrifying to her. Sophie wasn't scared at all, she was actually quite intrigued, but she was pulling her usual I-will-not-sit-still-so-you-can-take-my-picture routine.
3D pictures of Mars.
Overall, it was a fun time. I'm glad we didn't have to pay to get in though, because I think I would have felt a little jipped. Most of their displays were small and/or just hanging on a wall.Not really enough hands-on stuff for kids to experience. We recently went to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science which had a totally awesome space exhibit and even Tucson's Flandrau Planetarium seemed to have more to offer.
It was a good conversation starter for us to talk to our boys about our memories of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that killed the seven astronauts on-board, including Christa McAuliffe, the school teacher that had been specially chosen for the mission. I was in fourth grade and watching the live televised program when the Challenger suddenly exploded after take-off. Everyone was shocked and heartbroken. I remember a lot of crying and kids totally breaking down. I'm glad I wasn't a teacher/administrator that day. Do you remember where you were when you heard/saw it?
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