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While many children dream of being astronauts when they grow up, few of them have the chance to experience it.
But a group of students from St Luke's College in Karratha is about to do it.
Eighteen students and two teachers spent this week at a "space camp" at a NASA space center in the United States, trying out the astronaut's life by participating in drills. Training, engineering challenges and simulated space missions.
Activities include training astronauts on a gravity chair of a sixth, building and launching a rocket, piloting jet aircraft simulators and participating to a mission simulation on Mars.
Carly Kinch, a science teacher at St Luke's College, described the camp as "a trip of a lifetime" and said it would give students a detailed look at the work of NASA astronauts.
"Missions simulated on exact replicas of real space shuttles give students a real idea of what it means to be an astronaut, and the current focus on Mars missions allows them to connect what they do with current activities. Space Exploration NASA. I said.
"The US Space and Space Center on the site, as well as the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, teach students the past, present, and future of space exploration in exciting, innovative, and creative ways."
This is the second time St Luke's has sent a group to the Advanced Space Academy camp for the first time in 2015.
The group will be at the US Space and Rocket Center camp in Huntsville, Alabama, for five days starting September 23rd.
They will then travel to Orlando, Florida and San Francisco, to explore other scientific destinations, including the Kennedy Space Center, the Exploratorium and the National Ignition Facility, as well as other tourist sites. .
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