Goddard Space Center had its birthday today! To celebrate they held a virtual field trip to showcase the space missions currently going on. Ms. Ridenhour’s and Ms. Davidson’s classes came in to the Learning Commons to participate. Did you know that the space ship traveling to the drawf planet Pluto has been traveling for 9 years? It will reach its destination this July! That is longer than these first graders have been alive! They decided it would be a VERY long trip! Then they wondered if a person is on that space ship?  Hmmm… more research is needed. We heard about the James Web Space telescope, the Curiosity robot on Mars and the New Horizon Project. Ms. Stepp shared a brand new book to our Learning Commons about how it was decided that Pluto was not a planet. A biography about Michael Brown, The Planet Hunter. Ms. Davidson and Ms. Ridenhour’s classes will get to read it first!