Thursday's highlight was a visit from Dr. Harris himself, the former astronaut who heads the Harris Foundation. Along with a chemical engineer representative from ExxonMobil (she splits her time between Houston and LaBarge, WY), Dr. Harris helped with an activity testing space suits that the campers designed and constructed using a limited budget. Another fun hour was spent dropping the "planetary landers" the campers also designed and built using a limited budget. Most of the landers safely brought their eggs to Earth, but as you'll from the pictures below, not all did. We explored other challenges to spaceflight, including a lesson on how much oxygen is necessary for a long interstellar trip.
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| Dr. Harris talking about space travel |
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| Planetary lander fun |
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| A successful landing |
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| Not so successful |
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| Parachutes were big this year |
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| Fun between activities |
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| Question wall |
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| Chip with the ExxonMobil Chemical Engineer |
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| Testing spacesuit designs |
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| The micrometeor went through my spacesuit! :( |
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| Measuring lung volumes |
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| Spaceflight challenges in a vacuum |
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