Space Camp Turkey

Last week Caleb had the opportunity to attend space camp with his school for 3 days in Izmir, which is on the west coast of Turkey. Space Camp Turkey is the only licensed space camp in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia and is one of two globally. The trip was open to 5th and 6th graders at Caleb’s school, and during their time away, they learned many things about space ranging from the moon, planets, how to grow plants in those habitats, constellations, principles of physics and chemistry used in space exploration, foundations of rocketry, experiencing astronaut simulators giving them the feeling of living and working in space (the highlight), and feeling what it’s like to walk on the moon using virtual reality. He had a great week learning and having fun, and today Caleb is featured as the guest blogger to tell you about his trip! 

Me and my friend Zach are heading to the airport in a van with my mom and dad.

Samuel, me, and Zach are waiting to get on our flight.

Me and my class are heading to the airplane.

I took a quick selfie with a cardboard astronaut once I got there.

This is my room where I stayed.

There’s the lobby

This is the stomp rocket room where we made rockets on the first day.

This is us launching the stomp rockets. It was fun.

This is a lesson on physics we learned before we built the rockets,

This is me is the rockets room.

This is me in a space suit.

There’s a little robot I saw.

Look at that space lab.

There’s a little astronaut.

There’s a little space van.

This is a Mars habitat.

There’s a lab on mars

This is how they grow plants in space, it’s called hydroponics.

I saw a little Mars rover on the way to the rooms

This is the space station.

That’s a simulation that shows what it feels like to work inside space.

Me and my friend Kentaro and teacher Ms. Jones at the theater.

Learning about all the zodiac signs.

There’s me in a simulation about what it feels like to fall from space to earth. This was my favorite simulation!

This is Mission Control. We read scripts and all had different jobs to manage the space mission.

There’s me and my group on the space mission. My job was Capcom and I talked to the people in the ship to tell them what to do.

There’s a video about rockets

There’s a space suit.

Thats a model of spaceship Discovery.

That’s a life sized model of the Discovery.

Thats me on an astronaut exercise machine. It is how astronauts exercise in space and looked like a big hamster wheel.

Thats my friend on a zero gravity wall, learning what it is like to work in space. 

Me volunteering for a demo about what it feels like to have a leak in a spaceship. 

Thats me a graduation, look all the way to the left. They had a ceremony and gave us certificates.

This is everybody who came from my school. I am in the second row all the way to the left.

After the last day of space camp, we went to the mall for lunch and to watch a movie before flying back to Ankara. It was a very fun trip!