Hello to all
This is the first blog from our newly established blog spot online.
The idea here is to give all Students and Aerospace club members involved in Aerospace Education Service activities a chance to share in the excitement of our overseas tour to Houston Texas in the United States.
We came to Houston to participate in the International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC). ISSDC is a special competition run by NASA scientists and engineers requiring student teams to design settlements in space and on other planets typically for more than 10,000 people. For more information on the competition you can visit the site at http://www.spaceset.org.
Since arriving in Houston the team members have begun to settle into a daily routine of reasearch, work and sightseeing. I think the highlight of our stay so far has been to visit NASA's Johnson Space Center. To view in person the control rooms where the Apollo lunar landings were conducted, to see the truly enourmous Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the moon and to observe the extensive simulator facility where astronauts train for upcoming missions aboard the Space Shuttle and International Space Station was and unforgettable experience to say the least.
I will post more pics to this site in the coming days of our visit to JSC.
Now some of our partner teams have arrived from India and other states from the USA. The Malaysian members have beed readily adopted into their host teams and work has commenced on discussion of designs for a colony on the surface of Mars.
During the next few days teams will identify the critical areas of concern with regard to the highly complex and demanding task that lays ahead.
This coming Saturday the teams will be attending seminars conducted by NASA engineers to discuss the many aspects of designing colonies in space and on other planets. We are all looking forward to the opportunity of learning first hand from experts who have been working for NASA for many years and who are willing to impart their knowledge to all the members of the teams present.
More to follow.
Best regards
Sam
Team Adviser