Johnson Space Center Rocks
Although I was skeptical about spending the summer in Arkansas at first, it has turned out to be one of the best summers I've had in a long time. It's like I'm back to freshman year of college, meeting new friends, doing all sorts of fun things, taking up all our spare time, and the weather is actually nice.
Last week we took a trip to Houston and JSC, and since we know people who are co-oping there, we got a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA. It was amazing. We actually got to walk around in the Apollo Era Mission Control room, where they controlled the moon landings! Everything you see in the movie Apollo 13 I got to touch in real life. And we got to see the ISS and Space Shuttle Control Rooms too. We also saw the big vacuum chamber for simulations that's in the movie Armageddon. (I know, lots of movie references, but it's the easiest way to describe them). In the public part of Space Center Houston, I got to touch the lunar capsule of Apollo 17!! Something that had been in SPACE!! omg, I really, really want to go into space at some point in my life. Oh! And we even got to see Martian meteorites (rocks that came from Mars) and some of the lunar sample brought back from Apollo. It was a very cool trip. The 12 hour van-ride each way was a little annoying, but definitely worth it.
I can't believe I have less than three weeks left, and really only two more to work on my project. I really want to get more data so I can complete the second phase of my project. (So far there's no liquid water on Mars =P).
Besides all that I've been playing tennis a lot, and other fun active things of that nature. I might be back in Buffalo Aug 1, but I'm leaving right away to go camping/white water rafting at Ohiopyle, PA for a week, so really I'll be back Aug 7. Then I'll probably head up to Cornell for a night somewhere before I go for good on the 19th. Anyone who is around those days will need to visit with me. Hmm, I have a seminar at 3, so I guess I'll be going, maybe get a tiny bit of work done before, but that's doubtful.
Last week we took a trip to Houston and JSC, and since we know people who are co-oping there, we got a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA. It was amazing. We actually got to walk around in the Apollo Era Mission Control room, where they controlled the moon landings! Everything you see in the movie Apollo 13 I got to touch in real life. And we got to see the ISS and Space Shuttle Control Rooms too. We also saw the big vacuum chamber for simulations that's in the movie Armageddon. (I know, lots of movie references, but it's the easiest way to describe them). In the public part of Space Center Houston, I got to touch the lunar capsule of Apollo 17!! Something that had been in SPACE!! omg, I really, really want to go into space at some point in my life. Oh! And we even got to see Martian meteorites (rocks that came from Mars) and some of the lunar sample brought back from Apollo. It was a very cool trip. The 12 hour van-ride each way was a little annoying, but definitely worth it.
I can't believe I have less than three weeks left, and really only two more to work on my project. I really want to get more data so I can complete the second phase of my project. (So far there's no liquid water on Mars =P).
Besides all that I've been playing tennis a lot, and other fun active things of that nature. I might be back in Buffalo Aug 1, but I'm leaving right away to go camping/white water rafting at Ohiopyle, PA for a week, so really I'll be back Aug 7. Then I'll probably head up to Cornell for a night somewhere before I go for good on the 19th. Anyone who is around those days will need to visit with me. Hmm, I have a seminar at 3, so I guess I'll be going, maybe get a tiny bit of work done before, but that's doubtful.