Advanced Space Academy

Locations: Huntsville, AL and KSC, FL
Time: June 18-24, 2011

It has been my great privilege to participate in Honeywell Educators at Space Academy, in Huntsville AL, and Kennedy Space Center, FL.
I really enjoyed all activities in Huntsville and the visit at KSC.
Every moment spent with peers was great and memorable.

Everything was great!  Thank you Honeywell! Thank you all!

Video graduation show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2I47rpTWKwo#at=593

Graduation show, Advanced Space Academy 2011

Journey to the Moon

May 12, 2011
Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania

The sky  was clear, so we watched the Moon through telescope.

Misteries of the Universe

April 28, 2011
Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania

The last mission STS-134 of space shuttle Endeavour aims to be a historic mission. Installation of a particle detector on the outside of the International Space Station will pave the way for finding answers to some unsolved mysteries of the Universe: dark matter and antimatter.

Yuri's Night

Children's Educational Center Of Oradea, Romania
April 12, 2011

Yuri's Night is an international action dedicated to the celebration of a man's first flight in space, Yuri Gagarin and the first flight of a space shuttle. Both events took place on 12 April, at a distance of one another 20 years - 1961, 1981 respectively.


On April 12, 2011, wecelebrated 50 years after first trip man who opened the door of the Cosmos: Yuri Gagarin.
The members of Astronomy and Space Science Club sent their pictures in STS-134 and STS-135 missions.

Mission: to the Moon

The Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania
March 24-th 2011

 The Moon has always inspired us to look to the sky. People have always been fascinated by the moon: they used it to measure time and wondered how it got in the sky. In the last century, 12 astronauts landing lunar surface.

1. Their story and are the most important stages of a mission to the Moon.
2. A virtual journey to the Moon.

Our address in the Universe

The Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania
March 10, 2011

Viewed from inside the Earth, Milky Way looks like a white trail in the sky. But how it looks from outside our galaxy? What are its neighbors?

Virgo cluster, Local Group of galaxies, Milky Way, Solar System, Planet Earth.

Globe at night

Children's Educational Center Of Oradea, Romania
February 24-th, 2011

Maybe you admired the dark sky in a place with low light pollution. You can see more stars in the sky, but when you look in a city where there are more lights, you can see just few stars.

If you look carefully, in a place where there's less light pollution, you can even see the Milky Way.
Unfortunately, there are people who live in big cities that have never seen a whitish trail in the sky: the Milky Way.
In order to determine the level of light pollution of your city, you must follow these steps:

1. http://www.globeatnight.org/webapp/
2. Time of your observation
3. Latitude and longitude of your city
4. Appreciate magnitude of the sky
5. Send your observation data.

Jewelry of winter sky

Children's Educational Center Of Oradea, Romania
February 10, 2011

Look at sky in a clear night sky of February and you will see the true jewels. Orion is the constellation that dominates the winter sky, Canis Major with Sirius, Taurus with Aldebaran, and beautiful Pleiades with baby born stars.
We saw Jupiter and the Moon through our telescope.