So many comments! I love it, keep them coming. I would like to start today by commenting on some of your comments. I love the question, why did I want to come to Space Camp? Teaching 6th grade, in a suburban school district I love the opportunity to provide students with first hand experiences. Of course, I would like to bring the class to the camp but that would cost way to much! I am here with teachers from 43 states and 19 countries. We are having a great time learning, and sharing ideas of ways to incorporate space into our teaching! The Honeywell Corporation has truly given the teachers here a chance of a lifetime!

On the first day of camp we received our space suits! Yes, I now have a space suit. We started the day with an IMAX movie called "Roving Mars." This was a great explanation of the raise to get to Mars. Following the movie we were privileged to listen to Story Musgrave. Mr. Musgrave came to the U.S. from Germany during the time period the US was raising to the moon. Story has been in space 6 times and was the person responsible for fixing the Hubble Space Telescope. The pictures and the stories that he shared are truly amazing.

We learned the history of the NASA Space missions patches and our team designed our own space patch. The history and simplicity of the patches is something I never knew.

Having 200 teachers here, Honeywell ended the first day with a gathering for all Space participants.

Space Camp has for sure exceeded my expectations! There is a shuttle named the Pathfinder here that was used for fittings. This shuttle was the test shuttle placed on top of the 747 for transport between Florida and other states, and was also used in Florida to test numerous operations of the space shuttle when the Apollo aircraft was switched to the current day orbiter!

The stories continue and I will keep them coming! Tom Hanks was even at camp today to watch his sun graduate!

OK, so it is now the end of day 1 at space camp. I am so sorry but I can not yet figure out how to post pictures on the web site. I promise that I will work on it for tomorrow. I am so glad to hear from the summer school class. I am doing well. I hope that you are all treating Mrs. S with respect. I am sure I will be proud of you when I return.

Yesterday was a relaxing day. I flew from Minneapolis to Memphis. We left 45 minutes late due to congestion on the runway. I arrived at Memphis and with little layover time got on board a flight to Huntsville. Upon arriving in Huntsville I was the first off the plane. Walking off the plane I saw a man in a space outfit and I knew he was waiting for me. It turns out that he was waiting for actually 12 of us who were on the same flight together. I thought I may be the only one! I had no idea that 12 people on the same flight were going to Space Camp!

I arrived at the dorm to find that I was the first of the 4 in my suite. It was kind of like the show "The Real World" were everyone waits for their roommates to arrive. First, Martin arrived from The Czech Republic. Tom was second from Ohio, followed by Tim from Arizona.

We ventured to Walmart. It was a easy night. The adventures were sure to come for Thursday! Please stay tuned.....