Emma introduced us to Mason. Mason delivers the Education Strategy for Saxavord Spaceport. He is also an astronaut in training.Mason was actually in Arizona last week to get some training for going in Space. He spoke about the Artemis project. They are planning to put 4 people to the moon. One of those will be a woman and another will be a person of colour.  He told us around 1,000,000 people all over the world will be working together to achieve this. In the future they hope to build a platform on the moon where people might be able to eventually go to Mars. He spoke about satellites and we were surprised to learn how small they actually are.

He explained that many skills/trades are needed in order to get people into space. People are needed to make and design space suits, engineers and joiners are needed to build the spacecraft. Artists and creative people are also needed as the story needs to be told well.

He spoke about the speed of light and a huge conversation was had about gravity. We talked about space junk. Mason explained that the recovery of space junk was a focus for them too.

Mason also showed us his Russian helmet from the 80s. It was a high altitude pressure helmet. It was so amazing to see.

We all enjoyed the visit and hopefully we will see Mason again soon.