NASA ATX TRAINING

Oakridgers trip to USA and NASA was an enriching experience where the  students were taken for the Astronaut Training Experience (ATX) at Kennedy Space Centre, Orlando, Florida. Astronaut John Mc Bride , a veteran NASA astronaut, interacted with the students and shared his experience as a pilot of STS 41-G which was launched from Kennedy Space Centre,Florida on October 5,1984,aboard the Orbiter challenger. Astronaut Mc Bride spoke warmly about the First Indian Astronaut in space Mr.Rakesh Sharma and about his long friendship with him.

Later, the students were taken through a space shuttle mission simulation and performed hands-on space exploration activities in groups. They experienced the feel of walking in space during their practice session on the O-G wall and the motion based training simulators. Each group was divided into two crews- mission control crew and the Orbiter crew and coordinated well to perform a full- scale space shuttle mission simulation. At the end of it they were given certificates for the successful completion of ATX.