{"id":1469,"date":"2013-04-02T04:42:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T04:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2013-04-02T04:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T04:42:52","slug":"space-mission-simulations-by-students-in-the-space-age-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Space mission simulations by students in the Space Age days"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Sisson has an interesting post about space mission simulations carried out by young people during the late 1960s: Books and Ephemera: Kevin Kelly, forgotten space celebrity (1968) – Dreams of Space<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the most famous junior testing astronauts was a 14 year old boy named\u00a0Kevin Kelly. He and groups of dedicated \u00a0youth tested the limits of survival in a space capsule and led the way to our landing on the Moon.\u00a0 This October 30, 1968 story in Current Science the outlines these heroic efforts. Unfortunately this coverage was limited to a newspaper distributed in classrooms so few recognize this hero today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kevin\u00a0spent a grueling 336 hours in\u00a0a test capsule in order to prove that the human body was capable of a flight to the Moon. By locating the expensive test apparatus in the basement of a suburban house they were able to avoid harmful media exposure during the testing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Current Science article went on to describe other projects by student teams who simulated multi-day Gemini and Apollo missions.<\/p>\n

As described in the HobbySpace Space Simulation section<\/a>, there are still some schools and organizations who carry out elaborate space simulations with students such as the Columbia Aeronautics and Space Association (CASA)<\/a>\u00a0 at Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Sisson has an interesting post about space mission simulations carried out by young people during the late 1960s: Books and Ephemera: Kevin Kelly, forgotten space celebrity (1968) – Dreams of Space One of the most famous junior testing astronauts was a 14 year old boy named\u00a0Kevin Kelly. He and groups of dedicated \u00a0youth tested … Continue reading Space mission simulations by students in the Space Age days<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history","category-simulators"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-nH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7805,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7805","url_meta":{"origin":1469,"position":0},"title":"The Russell Space Team shuttle simulations for grade school astronauts","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Russell Space Team\u00a0at\u00a0Russell Elementary School in Smyrna, GA\u00a0is an\u00a0award winning program in which\u00a04th & 5th graders carry out\u00a0elaborate Space Shuttle mission simulations. 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