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Space is cool. And scary. And dark. And beautiful. And deadly.
Space is cool. And scary. And dark. And beautiful. And deadly.
Space is awesome.
Space is awesome.
I wanted to find a way to bring the wonders of space travel back to earth where it's a bit brighter and easier to breathe, so I started building spaceships. Not actual ships, with engines and airlocks and electricity. Just something that brings the excitement of a sci-fi movie into my own life.
I started with Legos, but they have their limits. I looked to other materials and found that cardboard, hot glue, and PEX pipes are a powerful combination. I added plexiglass, string, paper bags, wooden dowels, and duct tape to my pile of ingredients. I'm fortunate to have access to simple tools like drills and saws as well as more complicated machines like laser-cutters and 3d printers.
The three small spaceships I've built so far have brought me and others an incredible amount of joy. I'm still looking for ways of sharing them with more people, but right now my ships make a yearly appearance in the neighborhood on Halloween night and are occasionally brought out to entertain me or my friends. I continue to design and build more ships, though I'm having to get creative with size and modularity as I run out of storage space.
In preschool, I was given the opportunity to create a space habitat for a space-focus week of learning, It was my first spaceship, and the experience has shaped my desire to apply my problem-solving, creative thinking, and physical manufacturing skills to bringing that kind of happiness to other communities.
I'm the one with the red shirt. A few days after these pictures were taken, the room was transformed into a representation of the surface of the moon, and students were able to go out in "spacesuits" to collect moon rocks, pretend gravity was lessened, admire the stars, and participate in other space-related activities.
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