Mission

Every year, Spacesim conducts a 96 hour (5 day) simulated mission to an astral body in the solar system. Candidates for missions have been planets, moons, and even asteroids as the OCESS astronauts search for their own educational experience in the depths of "space".

The first mission in Ottawa took place in 1992. From then until 2000 (possibly later?), missions were 72-hours in duration. They would run from a Monday 13:00 (local time) to Thursday 13:00, or Tuesday 13:00 to Friday 13:00. The mission date was set for February by the International Student Space Simulation so that all missions would occur simultaneously. This practice continued until arround 1996, at which point, mission date coordination only took place between Ottawa and our sister-mission in Lexington, South Carolina.