Stennis Space Center Trip

On 10 October 2009, the Cadets took a trip to NASA's Stennis Rocket Test facility. C/2nd Lts. Agnes Nworkorie & Placid Nworkorie and C/Airmen Phillips & Pike and C/Basic Nworkorie & Kelly hit the road early Saturday with Major Phil Smith and 2nd Lt. Lydia Pike. Undaunted by the inclement weather, the element departed at 07:00 and headed east for the 1.5 hour drive across the state line into Mississippi. From the welcome center, they boarded a bus bound for Stennis.

NASA Stennis Space Center was established in 1963 in order to test the stages of the rockets that took Man to the moon. After an informational bus tour around the facility where they saw several test pads, including one that will be complete in 2011 and will be used to test the J2 engines that will power the Ares 5 rocket in the “Constellation” project that will take man back to the moon.

Unlike Apollo, the Aeries V will house the payload while Aeries II will be the crew module. Each of the modules will be launched separately and rendezvous in orbit then continue to the moon.

After the tour, the cadets experienced the space center museum, the StenniSphere. Full of interesting exhibits such as Naval Meteorology & Oceanography Command exhibit, International space station and 3-d visualization lab, by far, the most intriguing was the Space Shuttle Cockpit which contained a simulator that provided an idea of what it might be like to land the shuttle. All the cadets were successful but I understand Major Smith got the highest score of the day.

All of the cadets reported having a good time and extend their appreciation to Major Smith for organizing and seeing this trip through.

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Commander Collins says he has been beating the pavement, following up with people and businesses who participated last year. Leave a commment and let us know how YOU are doing in your efforts.

If you do not have the forms yet, check your past emails from Lt.Col.Collins. If you can't locate them, let me know and I'll send them to you. Print them and be sure to add the following important information.

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Thanks for supporting this very worthy cause and don't forget to leave a comment on how this is going for you!

Welcome to our new Blog

Greetings all!

Well, communication seems to be the topic of concern lately. Everybody is so busy with their lives, Cadets with there school work and such, meeting attendance is down. All totally understandable, of course.

The question we are faced with is "How do we keep everyone in the loop and make sure they know what is going on and that they are missed?" Well, I thought I give this a shot.

Now, this is a VERY ROUGH draft and a work in progress! But before I put too much time into it, I thought I'd try to get some feedback from you all (Positive AND Negative) so I take it in the right direction or I shut it down now.

Thanks Guys!

Lydia Pike