By Carrie Adams

Silver Creek Leadership Academy Program Coordinator

Cody Laxton, Katie Laxton and Kelley Laxton of Longmont recently attended Space Camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, home of Space Camp and NASA’s official Visitor Information Center for Marshall Space Flight Center.

The weeklong educational program promotes science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), while training students and adults with hands-on activities and missions based on team work, leadership and decision-making.

Cody, Katie and Kelley were part of the Advanced Space Academy Program, which is specifically designed for high school trainees who have a particular interest in aerospace. They spent the week training with a team that flew a simulated Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Once aboard the ISS, the crew participated in experiments and successfully completed an extra-vehicular activity (EVA), or space walk, including training in the SCUBA tank and flight simulators. The crew returned to earth in time to hear retired Space Shuttle astronaut Col. Bob Springer speak at their graduation.

Space Camp crew trainers who lead each 16-member team must have at least a year of college, and the majority of staff are college graduates. Space Camp operates year-round in Huntsville, Alabama, and uses astronaut training techniques to engage trainees in real-world applications of STEM subjects. Students sleep in quarters designed to resemble the ISS and train in simulators like those used by NASA. More than 600,000 trainees have graduated from Space Camp since its opening in Huntsville in 1982, including STS-131 astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger.

Last year, children and teacher from all 50 states and 58 international locations attended Space Camp.

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