Up there! … where?

Our universe is a large, unimaginable compound of dust, stars, clouds, gas, galaxies and even life! … but guess what?

This season, our Big Kids will learn all about our amazing universe and the challenges of human space travel through our great friend & space commander: Scott Kelly, who just landed on Earth after a historic 340-day mission aboard one of NASA’s International Space Stations! That’s almost a whole year!

During his journey, Kelly ventured outside the confines of the space station for three spacewalks during his mission. The first included a variety of station upgrade and maintenance tasks, including routing cables to prepare for new docking ports for U.S. commercial crew spacecraft. On a second spacewalk, he assisted in the successful reconfiguration of an ammonia cooling system and restoration of the station to full solar power-generating capability. The third spacewalk was to restore functionality to the station’s Mobile Transporter system.

Do you want to know something amazing?

Kelly took the time to register absolutely everything, including photos & videos and every day after his missions, he quietly sat on his laptop, prepared all his photos, and shared the through social media! … I encourage you to have a look at his instagram account @ScottKelly, you’ll find cool photos like this one:

Impressive, huh?

Well, photos and stories like the ones above will be part of our Big Kids Club every Thursday from 1 pm – 4pm  😉 (here’s a short list for the month of January’s lessons, in case you wonder  :lol:)

Class 1 – January 12th: In the Beginning: A glimpse into Scott’s universe.

Special Class – January 19th: Field Trip through space (VPL)

Class 2 – January 26th: The Big Bang! Mysteries & Theories

The world of outer space is so interesting that teaching the children about it will give them a sense of how big our world is and how important we are to it! I really hope you can join us!