Another special guest... 

Sophie Milam

We are blessed to have Sophie Milam come and share with us her adventures on Mars!

You heard me right...

Sophie just finished an 8 month stint as Chief Engineer on the third HI-SEAS Mission (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) - a project funded by the NASA Human Research Program that simulates a long-duration Mars mission here on Earth. She's closer to Mars than anyone else you know….and she's coming to share with us her experiences and challenges on her mission!

Sophie was just named by Forbes magazine in its 2015 “30 Under 30 in Science.” Sophie recently graduated with a mechanical engineering master’s degree from University of Idaho. But she wanted to take time to prepare for our next major space program objective -- the planet Mars!

Along with five other crew members (three male, two female) and two reserves, Sophie was selected from hundreds of international applicants to participate in HI-SEAS Mission 3. Mission 3, the longest to date, began Oct. 15, 2014 and lasted for a total of 273 days, ending on June 15, 2015, which coincidentally is Sophie's birthday.

“I have always wanted to be an astronaut,” Sophie said. “When I was 2, my mom took me to see the Space Shuttle as it piggy-backed on top of a modified Boeing 747. Ever since, my life’s goals have been focused on space.”

Sophie will be coming to share her experience this Wednesday, July 15 at 10 am.
Come meet someone who may very well be on the first mission to Mars!
(you can tell people later that you know a space legend)

You can read more of Sophie's adventure on her Wordpress site - https://domesoph.wordpress.com/

Come meet one of the next generation of astronauts!

SPHERES 

If you want to learn more about what can be done with a smart phone, an encasing with some CO2 canisters, and a little imagination, you'll learn about the SPHERES program.

Check out these links:

• http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/311.html
  
• http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spheres_video.html
  
• http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/spheres.html

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
See you next Monday!

A special guest... 

Astronaut, John Phillips

We are so blessed to have someone who has been on the International Space Station join us! An American hero is coming to share his adventures in space next Tuesday!

NASA EXPERIENCE: After training to be an astronaut in 1996, Mr. Phillips served as systems engineering and CAPCOM for the International Space Station (ISS) and as a robotics specialist, supporting operations on missions. He has logged more than 203 days in space during three flights and has flown as Flight Engineer on three different spacecraft types:  shuttle, Soyuz and ISS.

He served on the STS-100 Endeavour (April 19 to May 1, 2001) delivering and installing the Canadarm-2 robotic arm on the ISS.

He also served on the ISS Expedition 11 Mission (April 15 to October 10, 2005) for six months, continuing ISS maintenance, working with scientific experiments, performing a spacewalk in Russian spacesuits from the Pirs Airlock and hosting the “return to flight” visit of Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-114).

Mr. Phillips also served on the STS-119 Discovery Mission (March 15 to 28, 2009) for a 13-day, 202 orbit mission, where the crew delivered and installed the S6 integrated truss segment to the ISS, including the final two solar array wings.

Need less to say - we are honored to have a man who has served our nation and science in such laudable ways! Come meet him next Tuesday, July 7 at 9 am.

Come join a REAL astronaut!