Parkland’s Space Shuttle Blake Ready for Kennedy Space Center

Schnecksville Elementary students, teachers and administrators held a farewell ceremony for the school's Space Shuttle Blake on Thursday afternoon.

Blake will be transported to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida next week via a donated Mack truck to attend the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on Friday, April 29.

Blake is a 4/10-scale replica of the Space Shuttle on the exterior and a state-of-the-art classroom inside. The brainchild of Schnecksville art and science teacher Bob Boehmer, the Blake has ground-to-space communication capabilities, a space shuttle flight simulator, 12 networked multimedia computers, and other hands-on learning centers.

The students sent the following message to the crew of the Endeavour: "May your Lift Off be uneventful, your Mission successful, and your Return bring you safely back to Earth! Good Luck, God Speed! We are Go For Launch In Spirit and In Space. The Space Shuttle Blake Crew."