Artemis II launch watch party<\/a><\/p>\nGuests are invited to watch the launch broadcast in real time from the Saunders Planetarium. During the launch, Dr. Mackenna Wood and a team of astrophysicists will offer live commentary of what\u2019s happening. There\u2019s also a number of interactive exhibits and a chance to ask questions to space experts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting inspirited about space and all the things we can do in space in their lifetimes is what is really awesome about this mission,\u201d Wood said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As part of the MOSI team, Wood says what she finds most exciting about this mission is what it means for the future of space exploration. She says the diverse crew that will be onboard is also inspiring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re in fact going further into space than any human has ever been before. Including in all the Apollo missions,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re doing this with new technology that\u2019s going to allow to stay there for longer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Students in some Tampa Bay area schools, like at Stewart Middle Magnet School, spent the week learning about the Artemis II mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some students used a simulator to replicate being inside a space capsule while others worked as Mission Control. In math, students analyzed the transitions the capsule will experience throughout the mission and illustrated the track of Artemus II on posters on the coordinate plane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talked about what the next stages are and landing on the moon\u2019s surface \u2014 that kind of thing \u2014 with the new technology we have,\u201d explained teacher Hayley Moore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Students in Stewart Middle\u2019s science and ELA classes also did activities like designing Artemis rockets and launchpads and examining how weather impacts a launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 While they may not be on Florida\u2019s space coast, Tampa Bay area students are getting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1564,26539,274,16924,276,115,139,1769,135,137,136,278,2032,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-214596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-angie-angers","9":"tag-app-space","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-artemis","12":"tag-hillsborough-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-orlando","15":"tag-space","16":"tag-tampa","17":"tag-tampa-headlines","18":"tag-tampa-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-trending-topics","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}