After being split into groups, we arrived at the National Space Centre. We had to walk up 144 steps, but it was worth it. The first floor showed the Moon and the Apollo landings. It showed Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.

Then we went to the second floor and there was a movie room and water rocket shooting, they really flew high.

We then went to the third floor and there was a costume of what they thought the astronauts should wear in 1960.  It looked like a suit of armour and there were these things that looked like phones that you put against your ear, and you could hear the communication between the astronauts and the space station. There was a count down on the days until Artemas 2 will launch and you had to make sure all the buttons were lit up so the rocket will launch. There were these wheels that you spun, one was fuel and the other one was oxygen.  You had to spin them as fast as you could to make a rocket noise, and the rocket launches.  Then we drew our own rocket.

Finally we went back to the ground floor in the science area where you dropped a ball into a cylinder to show how gravity works and the ball went in circles. In the background was a movie area with the big bang theory.  We then went to the planetarium and it showed how your body copes in space and what to watch our for, like sputniks and tiny rocks.

It was a really fun day and I loved it.

By Piers, Year 5