Tour Day

We are trying something new tonight. We have three videos for you to watch. You are going to have to be creative though and turn your head sides. Hey we are just learning this stuff. Mrs. Myers is doing most of the talking. The video of the Saturn V is a combination of the Apollos 18, 19 and 20 missions that were never flown. The hardware was complete when they abandoned the Apollo Missions. So it was assembled here to preserve it for future generations to see. It is unbelievable how big it is. Today we went on tours. We went to Building 9 which is where they have full size mock ups of space station, the shuttle, the Soyuz, the new Orion capsule, and we saw our mentor's robots there as well. The lunar rover is a project of his. We also have a picture of Spider. I bet you can guess where it got that name. Pretty impressive!! We then went to Mission Control. The picture taken at mission control that is really dark has a special person in it. Yes, we were fortunate enough to see our own Col. Johnson at work. He will be working CapCom during the next mission so he was busy at work preparing while we were there. We went to another building to learn about space suits and how they are going to make the next generation space suit. Mrs. Myers can be seen giving her imaginary friend a high five. This evening we went to Khima. There is a boardwalk there where there are carnival type attractions, restaurants, and shopping. We went there last year. This was the place that I showed my students that was covered in about 8 feet of water from the storm surge after Hurricane Ike. I was afraid of what we would see. To our amazement they have reconstructed a lot of it already. The damage is sad. Just across the water from where we were standing was a restaurant that was completely destroyed. The area is coming back. We talked to a local woman who said that the area will be in full swing again by this summer. That is good news for the people who live in the area.