Andrew Wilcox, of Sykesville, graduated from Space Academy at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Official Visitor Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Andrew, an incoming eighth-grader at Sykesville Middle School, participated in the weeklong educational program, where he flew a simulated space mission to Mars, participated in experiments, and simulated a spacewalk and extra-vehicular activity.
During the camp, he slept in quarters designed to resemble the International Space Station.
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