Fun Shuttle

Second graders in the CAP program are learning about parts of the space shuttle: orbitor, external tank (ET), and solid rocket boosters (SRBs). They also learned — and I did, too — that  two minutes after lift off, the SRBs are separated from the shuttle stack and land in the Atlantic Ocean. Then when the ET comes off and burns up as it falls back into the atmosphere, it lands in the Indian Ocean. The students did a demonstration of the shuttle stack and what happens after lift off.