Monday, October 12, 2009


I went to the Chabot Space Center ( sha-boe ). I saw a big telescope and saw a planetarium show. I also was on mission. Who wants to hear about all the awesome stuff!!!!

First when we got there we saw the planetarium show. It was really cool. It looked like you were flying through the screen. Some parts were really funny. Others were gross. For example we saw a naked human body. Like the worker said some parts made me feel really dizzy.

Next we went to see a huge telescope. It was named Rachel. I have never thought of naming a telescope. When a worker checked to see if we were listening he told us you went up in stilts to look into it. We did not believe him. The amazing part about this telescope it was 20 inches in diameter. Compared to little telescopes that is totally immense.

Last,but definitely not least we did are mission. The mission was we pretended that were really in mission control and on the spacecraft. I started out in mission control and halfway through went on the spacecraft. My job was a communications officer. That is a totally important job. I transferred all of the messages to the people on the spacecraft or mission control. The mission was trying to find Halley's comet and launch a probe into it. When I went on the spacecraft I was in charge of the cameras. It was so fun.

My favorite thing was the mission. It was really fun. I think it was a great experience and was really fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 comments:

pat and mitch said...

Clare: You almost sound as if you would make a good astronaut. I heard a woman astronaut speak last year. She got to take a space walk outside of the space craft. It was great to hear about your field trip..... grammy

Ryan P said...

Those new planetariums are really neat aren't they? If you get to go to space for real before I do I am going to be so jealous.