Falling Through the Atmosphere

It’s been a crazy last day!

Today we spent most of our time doing our Extended Duration Missions (EDMs). They were three hours long and TOTALLY insane. People were dying all over the place. The “space ghosts” (read: counselors who were there to give assistance when needed) could basically just pull us aside and tell us we were dead, or that we had contracted a disease and would die in a short time. The rules in terms of death were: there are no rules. I, personally, died one and a half times. Once from a cracked helmet, and two other close calls from CO2 and Asthma. The stakes were high, and describing the mission in detail would take about two whole blog posts.

We also launched our rockets! There’s not much to say about them really. Most of our Eggstronauts did not survive the flight, even though we put 3 and 1/2 hours of work into those rockets.

On a sad note, it’s our last night. It’s kind of weird, actually. We started Space Camp last Saturday and honestly, I think the group wasn’t feeling too thrilled about it.

Our feelings have completely changed.

I don’t know if our activities have gotten harder or we’ve just grown to like it more, but we love it now. More than that, we love the people we’re at the camp with — other Foxcroft girls as well as our new friends from China. I know we’ll be sad when we leave tomorrow.

But it’s not over yet! We still have graduation and our goodbyes to say.

I hope to update everyone on tomorrow’s final goings-on!

Avery ’13