Science Museum

We visited the Science Museum and I enjoyed looking around the Space section. They had some things on display that have actually been in space, as well as an astronauts suit.

We went to see one of the shows included with our ticket and for the first time ever I was picked as a volunteer to go up on stage. I had to help with a mission to mars but suggesting where a good place to land the spacecraft would be. We dropped ping pong balls into a tray of sand to make craters like the surface of the moon. I thought the spacecraft could land neatly inside one of the craters, but actually the scientist explained that the spacecrafts are designed to land on a flat surface as they have short legs and they could tip over.

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