The USS Hyperion is Under Construction at Telos Academy. Theater Imaginarium.

The USS Hyperion at Telos Academy is a New Farpoint Starship Simulator Soon to Open in Utah County

Architectural Drawing of the New Telos Academy Campus, Vineyard

The USS Voyager at Renaissance Academy will soon be joined by the USS Hyperion currently under construction at Telos Academy in Vineyard. Both simulators will operate under the Farpoint brand, using the Farpoint universe, missions, and curriculum. 

I'm working as a consultant with the Telos staff to build the Hyperion on the second floor of the school's second campus located in Vineyard, a mile or so south of the Megaplex Theater on Geneva Road. 

South Side of the new campus currently under construction

North side of the building

The Hyperion will hold approximately ten cadets on a bridge which will resemble my first simulator, the USS Voyager from the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center.  The ship will consist of a Bridge, Briefing Room, Control Room, Transition Room, Brig, and Storage.  

The layout of the Farpoint Ship Hyperion

The ship will be on the second floor, directly above the school's main lobby. The east and west sides of the Hyperion are flanked by hallways.  The school's dormitories are located above the ship. 

Telos is a residential / treatment school for boys and men ranging in age from thirteen to their early twenties (for those attending local universities).     

Telos Academy in Orem. Campus One. (Middle and High School)

The school's website outlines the school's program.

Telos helps boys dealing with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, addictions, social problems, and learning differences. The caring staff use clinical therapies coupled with the power of healing relationships to promote deep lasting change. The school's aim is to help teens lead principled-centered lives characterized by insightful choices.  Telos is a place where boys find clarity, healing, and director.

I'll be working with Dr. Ryan Anderson, primary therapist, to write and produce missions linked directly to the individualized clinical program.  This is exciting.  This will be the first time our simulation based, experiential education program will be used to specifically target and help students will special needs. The work done on the Hyperion will be disseminated to other Farpoint simulators.

Dr. Anderson and team will be conducting extensive research on simulations both in education and treatment.  These findings could open the door to other treatment schools and centers, meaning the possibility of new Farpoint simulators worldwide.  

Dr. Anderson is no stranger to starship simulations. During his highschool years, Ryan was a regular volunteer at the Space Center in Pleasant Grove.  I remember him well (considering his dad was my doctor). I'm including a short biography on Ryan so everyone in the Space Center community can get to know him and appreciate what he brings to the movement. 

Ryan Anderson received his B.S. degree in Marriage, Family, and Human Development and his M.S. degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. in Medical Family Therapy from East Carolina University, and completed his internship at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has worked as a family therapist in outpatient practice, in inpatient psychiatric settings, in cancer care, in several other medical settings, as a wilderness therapist and Assistant Clinical Director at Outback Therapeutic Expeditions, and as a therapist at Telos Residential Treatment. His teaching experience includes undergraduate university courses, first year medical students, and community outreach and education programs. He has also been a speaker at various conferences, radio shows, and continuing education events. He is author of the book "Navigating the Cyberscape: Evaluating and Improving Our Relationship with Smartphones, Social Media, Video Games, and the Internet."

            In addition to his work in the social sciences, Ryan spent about a decade dabbling to various degrees in video game design and production, working as a voice actor, writer, and designer for numerous mods and several independent games. He is also excited to be a part of the development team and the Clinical Director for Telos U, an treatment program designed to help young men with depression, anxiety, processing issues, learning difficulties, and electronics addictions transition to young adulthood. He will serve as the program director of the Telos U Space Education and Adventure Therapy Center. Ryan has a variety of other interests, including martial arts, history, cooking, music, language, physics, astronomy, hiking, and European board games. Most of all, though, Ryan enjoys spending time with his wife Marianne and sons, Bradley and Braeden. 

 

Dr. Anderson is the director of the Hyperion. His excitement is contagious.  His vision of what this program can do empowers and energizes everyone.  

Both Farpoint Centers will actively involve students in the day to day operations and management of the simulators. This student centered approach makes Farpoint simulators unique. Our students and Voyager Club volunteers, working alongside experiential education professionals, will be included in all aspects of development, management, and entertainment. They will write, produce, direct, and program missions. On the business end they will assist with the bookkeeping, advertising, and maintenance.

Farpoint's mission is to provide a public service to the schools and the community. After the daily school missions, both the Voyager and the Hyperion will be open for public missions and camps.

Keep reading The Troubadour for regular updates on all the simulators worldwide inspired by our work on the mothership, the USS Voyager.  Please contact me if you have comments or questions.  

Mr. Williamson
director@spacecamputah.org

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The New USS Voyager Gets its Warp (Jump) Core. Watch the Video and be Amazed. Space News. The Imaginarium.

The New USS Voyager is Fitted With an Outland Corporation Jump (Warp) Engine

David Kyle Herring, Isaac Ostler, and an Outland Corporation Jump Core Specialist check the seals

     An Outland Corporation jump core, sealed with an ACME brace, is usually the last large piece of equipment installed on a Farpoint Starship. A week or two of extensive tests follows instillation when technicians check seals, rings, washers, gadgets, and doodads. The ship will be cleared for space trials if everything checks out and the ship's chief engineer signs the A973-83 form in addition to checking the "Accepted" box on form GD4435 along with initialling payment authorization to the Outland Corporation. 

Monitoring the flow of antimatter through the magnetic field

David Kyle Herring stood in for Tex, the first Voyager's chief engineer.  Tex has been on extended leave for the past four years. Where he's been and what he's been up to is anybody's guess. Some say he signed on as a chief engineer with a privateer running questionable goods in the Orion Belt. Someone claims to have seen him in a run down shipstop on the Outer Rim.  Another less reliable source claims he found religion and dedicated himself to monastic life with the Silent Order of St. Swivel; supposedly living with his brothers of faith in a humble thatched hut deep in the Red Forest of Swindon.  

The claimant says that's Tex behind the curtain in the upper window

No one believes Tex would let someone else chief engineer a ship called Voyager. We're all expecting him to walk onto the bridge before launch acting as if nothing had happened. 

The Troubadour's reporter filmed some of the installation for you to watch and appreciate. The complexities involved in such delicate engineering require us to warn you NOT to try this at home!

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By Mark Daymont

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Space Station Departures and Change of Command

Change of Command Ceremony: Front (L-R): Malenchenko, Kopra, and Peake. Back Row (L-R): Williams, Ovchinin, and Skripochka. Credit NASA TV.

The last two weeks have seen a couple of farewells. Most recently, on Friday morning June 17, Commander Tim Kopra of Expedition 47 turned over command of the International Space Station to astronaut Jeff Williams. Then the Expedition 47 crew prepared to board and undock from the station.

Soyuz TMA-19M docked at the Russian Rassvet module.

In the returning Soyuz spacecraft TMA-19M, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko assumed spacecraft command with astronauts Peake and Kopra acting as flight engineers. The three crew have been on the ISS for 186 days. For astronaut Tim Peake, it marks the end of a significant mission as he has been the first British Astronaut with the European Space Agency to stay aboard the station.

The Soyuz undocks from the Rassvet module.

The hatch was closed at 10:34 p.m. Eastern , and undocking took place about 3 hours later.

The Soyuz slowly backs away from the station to avoid contaminating the station with exhaust particles during the de-orbit burn.

At about 4:20 a.m. Eastern, the crew fired the engines for the de-orbit burn and the spacecraft descended through the atmosphere. After separating the scientific and service modules, the crew capsule entered the atmosphere and landed a little after 4 am Eastern in Kazakhstan.

Back on Earth after 186 days.

Yuri Malenchenko now becomes the spacefarer with the second most time in space, at 828 days (first is Genady Pedalka). This was Kopra's second flight, bringing him to 244 days, and the completion of Peake's first mission for 186.

There was a another departure from the station a little while ago. This one was done by remote control.  

View of Cygnus from the ISS. The deployed solar panels are nicely symmetric.

On Tuesday June 14, astronauts used the robotic arm to undock and separate the Cygnus cargo spacecraft from the station. It arrived back in March of this year, and once all equipment and supplies were unloaded, the astronauts began filling it with waste, garbage, and unwanted equipment. The Cygnus, nicknamed Rick Husband after a NASA Astronaut, will de-orbit and burn up over the Pacific on June 22. Before that, though, The Rick Husband had a couple of assignments. First, on Tuesday, a special fire experiment was conducted in the craft by remote control from the ground. The purpose was to study how flames work in zero-gravity. This experiment was much larger than the ones performed on the ISS, and were safely done on the craft, separated from the ISS by the vacuum of space. Much more safe! The second item was to release 5 small Cube-Sat satellites into orbit on June 15. 

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