 Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination lets us journey to locations that we might otherwise never have the opportunity to visit. Imagination allows us to touch the future. Using imagination as well as simulation enables students in this case to take a space shuttle flight into space aboard a school bus. Their mission requires a rendezvous and a flight to another school while doing experiments and other activities along the way. During the next few minutes, you will be viewing scenes taken during the 1987 simulated shuttle mission with a rendezvous at the NASA Lewis Research Center and a landing back at the home school. This activity required the support of the NASA Lewis Research Center, the private sector, educators, students, parents and the community. A great partnership to launch a dream. A typical simulated space shuttle mission is divided into three parts. There is the pre-flight, flight and post-flight activities. The completion of each of these activities calls upon creative use of materials and personnel. During the pre-flight, the bus is transformed into a space shuttle. At the same time, the student astronauts are selected and trained. All of the students in each school are involved in some aspect of the flight, whether it be designing the patch, creating the spacesuit, preparing the meals, developing the payloads and flight experiments, including the shuttle or any other of the myriad of tasks required to ready the shuttle for flight. The moment arrives, it's time for lift off. With the orbit achieved, it's now time to complete all of the tasks called for in the flight plan, including a rendezvous by all of the shuttles at the NASA Lewis Research Center. The successful flights end with a touchdown back at the home school. Now there are debriefings and recognition programs for a job well done and a post-flight celebration at Cleveland State University in the evening.