A great way to extend your experience at the Center! While your students are not launching in our shuttle or working onboard our spacecraft, have them participate in an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA). An EVA is an additional two-hours of hands-on activities linked to the theme of your mission. Our hands-on lessons and team building activities will excite your students' interest as they learn science content and process skills targeting the NJ Core Curriculum Standards.

Your students can:

1. Investigate for a Deep Impact (in Rendezvous for Comet Halley EVA)
2. Prepare for a Lunar Expedition (in Return to the Moon EVA)
3. Become a Martian Surveyor (in Voyage to Mars EVA)

Deep Impact
Astronomers have discovered hundreds of "potentially hazardous asteroids" that have Earth-crossing orbits and have the long-term potential to impact Earth. Your students will examine how small bodies affect our solar system.

Lunar Expedition
Scientists have used a variety of different methods to study the Moon. Your students will examine the lunar surface in hopes of identifying resources that can help sustain a lunar colony.

Martian Surveyor
Plenty of clues suggest that liquid water once flowed on Mars, but the evidence remains inconclusive. Your students will gather important geologic information about the Martian surface.

EVA programming is available for an additional fee of $425 per mission.

EVA is a NASA acronym for Extra Vehicular Activity (commonly, a space walk.) At the Buehler Center, we use the term to refer to additional training thematically related to the Rendezvous with Comet Halley, Return to the Moon, or Voyage to Mars scenarios, which takes place outside the simulators. This is an additional two hours of curriculum which allows you to extend your visit to the Center, creating a full day experience. It may be scheduled at any time throughout the year with your scheduled mission.

Scheduling Considerations:

Single or double groups may reserve the program. (For Example, if you reserve the 8:30am & 11:00am mission times for 2 groups, they can arrive together and 1 group will receive EVA while the other group is flying a mission. After lunch, the groups will switch and be finished by 1pm.)

An EVA may be booked for each mission scheduled, based upon availability. The time your group would spend at the Center will conform to one of the following choices:

Choice I
Mission from 8:30-10:30, EVA from 11:00-1:00 or vice versa

Choice II
Mission from 10:45-12:45, EVA from 1:15-3:15 or vice versa

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