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Get ready, space cadets, for a journey that is out of this world to discover faraway galaxies and beyond. Explore the stars, sun, night sky and more. • Blast off! Campers will engineer and launch solid, liquid and air-propelled rockets. They will also build a spacecraft landing recovery system to return astronauts to Earth safely with an egg-drop activity. • See like an astronaut. Campers will explore the solar system through Austin Planetarium’s Discovery Dome. • You can finally look at the sun. Campers will view sunspots and solar prominences with a specialized H-alpha solar scope. • Twinkle, twinkle, little star. Discover constellations and develop your own star-charting tool! Campers will learn all about constellations stars and how they are formed developing their own star-charting tool. • It’s an alien invasion. Campers will create alien-themed targets and play paintball.
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