E. EUROPEAN

S. SPACE

A. AGENCY

The ESA was created in 1975 to coordinate space projects of 22 european countries. ESA’s headquarters are in Paris which is where policies and programmes are decided.

On 14 March I went with my class and another one to the ESA, in Frascati. We arrived there about at half past eight. They give us a t-shirt and hat of ESA. We did a lot of activities: we built VEGA (a small space shuttle), to go to this room there were a lot of stairs and as I had crutches it was very hard for me, we watched satellites orbiting around the word, we went in a dark room and we watched on a platform the level of salt in the sea and the heat of the earth, we also had a nice game, we were divided in six team and we had to find stars, comets and asteroids in movement. My squad resulted third. The most exciting thing for me was the launch of a small plastic rocket. It was beautiful, very very beautiful. The first and second rocket reached ten meters of altitude, but the following flew very high, about forty meters. At the end of the day we did some space experiments very interesting. The first was about the moon, we tried to land the rocket with a joypad, I failed twice. The second was about sea, we had a glass of cold water and another with hot water, when the water mixed the hot water went up and the cold down. The last experiment was about the planets, we had to build a home on another planet where there is life.

This trip was very exciting and interesting, I enjoyed myself a lot. Even if it was interesting, I didn’t have the curiosity to go to the space.

If you want to watch a launch of a small rocket, tap on this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bvewgojwk8btg48/alessio.mp4?dl=0

On March 14th me an my classroom went to the ESA(European Space Agency).

We left in the morning by bus until we arrived at ESRIN in Frascati, where, before entering we were given a t-shirt, a hat and a “passport” that stamped us with a different stamp for every activity.

In the first activity we were divided into teams and made to identify meteorites or craters caused by meteorites, at each correct answer we gained points that would then determine the winner of the game.

In the second activity they explained to us the sizes of a rocket and how it is made, and after we made one in wood

In the third activity they explained the movement of all their satellites, and some missions to better observe climate change or for example to measure sea humidity or salinity, and at the end of “lesson” we launched some rockets into the sky.

Before the fourth activity we had lunch and when we finished we have done the last activity which was divided into three parts: – in the first one a volunteer explained to us the first mission on the moon and through a simulator each of us made a landing on the Moon – in the secondly they explained to us some water movements making us do an experiment – and finally in the third they divided us into groups making us make a base on the moon by hand.

It was a wonderful experience

The visit to the europa ESA research center was very interesting, in addition to the visit of the place they also made us do experiments and through these they made us understand that space research is very useful to solve terrestrial problems, the particular deals with the satellites that run around the earth. the most intresting thing that i learn, was when scientis explained to us that satellite activity can control the movement of sea current and monitorng climating changes impacts on coastal shore.

ESA is the european association that send satellites to the atmosphere to calcolate different percentages for example temperature and pollution.

When we have arrived they have gave we a t-shirt with a sticker, a hat and a ESA’s passport, during the day we have done activities. The first activity: they have divided we in group to do 3 games where we had to find same satellites, we have arrived second, After that we have had snack and we have gone in another room where they have explain how it’s done a rocket that send the satellites in the atmosphere and also here they have divided we in 4 groups to build the 4 part of rocket, we have been the single group that have put bad the pieces of the rocket. After the third and fourth activities they have explained we what the satellities do.

In the latest activity before the lunch we have seen send some rocket in miniature with different powers.

The first part of the day was finished and after the lunch we have learned to land on the moon with a simulator the other with the earphones heard the explanation of moon. The activity that following was on the water and the tides, we have done a experiment: we have put in a basin with the water 2 glass, 1 with cold water of collie blue and 1 with hot water of color red, we have punctured the glass and we have seen that the cold water went down and the hot water went up. The day was ending and we must do the latest activity where we must build with some material a aerospace station on the moon.

Last week I went to the ESA (European, Space, Agency) with my classmates. We did many activities and we had so much fun. ESA volunteers explaned so many things to us with games and demonstrations. They showed us many interesting things about the Earth and the Moon, they showed us some handmade rockets done by them and some sattelite control offices. The experince was fantastic. It was really a great day for us.

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The day 14 /03 /19 my class and I went to the ESA, the international space association. Entering was not easy at all, but fortunately our teacher managed to get us in and, in my opinion, she made us live an unforgettable experience. Upon arrival, they welcomed us in an enchanting manner, with education and respect. To get in we had to wear T-shirts, stickers and hats. The space association foresaw different activities for us and at the end of each of these, they marked a stamp based on the activity carried out on a kind of passport. The first activity consisted of answering some questions where the craters and meteors had to be found. Another very interesting activity that we have done is the construction of the Vega satellite, where they delivered the satellite parts and we had to connect them and then see if it could reach the space without problems. In the middle of the day, they showed us rockets they had built and started them off. I recommend this place to anyone because, even if you don’t know much about the subject, they manage to explain and enrich the repertoire.

 

On March 14th we went on a trip to the ESA.

ESA: European Space Agency born in 1975 that coordinates space projects in 22 european countries.

At ESA we did a lot of activities such as a text, built a spaceship with colored and numbered pieces of wood, and we made a computer game where we had to land a spaceship on the moon through their explanations.

Then we saw a model that represented the environmental problems in our world.

For me it was a beautiful and interesting experience, because I could see their work.

This trip made me dream of being an astronaut and I could understand the emotions you feel when you see the earth from another planet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My classe and I lived a experience that not everyone can afford. Our Professor Stirparo had booked a visit to Esa, the European Space Agency.

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We have discovered so many things for example the study of satellities, planets and the earth. The first thing we talked about is the Vega, 30 meters long and composed of 4 stages it is also the samallest of all!.

Then they told us the names of satellities: Goce, Smos, Cryrosat, Swarm, Aeolus, Earthcare, Biomas and Flex

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We have done many activities all together and it was one of the best day I lived with my class!.

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24/03/19

Thursday 14 /03 me and my class went to ESA (European space agency ) that launch rockets for got information of the change of the world. For example the cryosat that measurement the change of the ice in artic and Antarctica.

for the first they delivered us the t-shirts and the hat. The researcher Juan started explaining meteorites and asteroids making us see photo of recently accidents caused by them and through group games he taught us how to recognize them. After we went in a big room where another researcher showed us photos of the main carrier rockets that Esa that launched and showed us, taking as an example the Verga (the smallest rocket ) from what a rocket is made how the various pieces are assembled and finally the trajectory to follow when launching. After explicated the theory, we passed at the practice part and they divided us in a grouos and I and my group worked in a piece of Verga and the others groups in others to formed the rocket. Afterwards we headed towards the neadew to see reaserches throwing small rockets and they planted out that based on the size or content the bearn to launch higher up lower. After they brought us in a room most little where two researchers explicated us how the rockets turn around at the world and how long time and how to request to launch a rocket (2 days) through call centers. Then they took us to another room where through a 3D world they explained various changes to our planet such as climate change the change of ice that is melting Then they showed us trough 3D terrain what the rocket see from above through colors. Finally they took us to a large room divided into three parts.in the first part the Apollo mission was explicated to us when they launched a rocket with people in space for the first time. Then they made us simulate finding a spaceship on a hande trough. Then they took us to the second part of the room where they showed us how hot water rises up and the cold one goes down through an experiment where they gave us a big basin where they put water at room temperature and two one glasses of hot water and the other of cold water and piercing them we noticed that the red (hot water) rises up difference of Blue (cold water). After they took us to the third part of the room where a researches explained to us that Esa wanted to make the moon habitable through a space base and they made us build ours with materials like balloons, silver foil. This trip was very interesting because of its importance in fact these studies help to avoid future disaster and I liked to discover this side of science that I had never studied in depth