Space... The Final Frontier

Another place I visited with my parents is the Space Centre. It is located next to the Vancouver Museum which Ian and myself had visited just before New Years. The highlight of the experience is a ride in the same vein of the Back to the Future one at Universal Studios. After watching a short sci fi film introduction about getting something from the sun to take to Mars you are taken to the simulator. Here you strap yourself in as the "spaceship" is thrown around as you fly through the sun and then onto Mars in order to complete your mission. It's quite short but good fun.

There are also many games to play in the main section, including landing a spaceship (I crashed every time), planning a mission to Mars (infuriatingly difficult, you spend ages planning your crew, fuel, equipment only to be told you've failed for some stupid reason. These include having a betrayer on board the ship, not having enough equipment and not even taking off because green peace protesters don't like all the nuclear fuel you use to power the ship), scanning your face into a camera and creating your own alien planet and docking with the international space station.

There are also many other things to see and a few shows to visit. These include dangers of space (more of a kids thing) and the planetarium where you lie back and see the stars from a variety of viewpoints across the world.

Here are a few more things I saw.

A space suit. Worn by astronauts in space. Go figure


This is an actual piece of the moon. I have actually touched a piece of the moon. Hahahahahaha


This is part of an asteroid. You have to try and pick it up with one hand, it's quite heavy


Some moon buggy thing


A model of a space station. Hooray


There was a man in this costume. I think he was crying for help


A model of a space ship. As John Fashanu would say "Awooga"