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Originally Posted by Vendor
absolute dark there,at home too many lights and candles Good luck  |
Thanks. My neighbor was cooking out side and had their lights on so I cut my time short. I didn't want to bother then and tell them to turn out their lights.
But I did make out the double star Epsilon Lyra. Looked like a long stain in the sky next to Vega but I could just barely make out the separate points of light.
I also saw a meteor (biggest I've seen in a while) and a satellite. The latter shined really brightly for a moment- I guess it was its solar panels reflecting the light. interestingly they crossed paths (from my perspective at least)... makes me wonder if someone was taking a shot at it.
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Originally Posted by frau kaleun
My dad and I were both space program geeks.
We had family friends who lived in Florida, between Orlando and the Atlantic coast. We used to visit there at least once a year. One time we went down to Cape Canaveral and took the tour of the KSC. At the time they were working on preparation for the first space shuttle mission - we were taken out on the runway they'd put down there in case the shuttle needed to land at KSC - but of course all the Apollo stuff I recognized was still around... mission control, the Vehical Assembly Building (if you think it looks big on TV, you should see it in person!) and it was totally awesome.
The space exploration exhibit at the MSI in Chicago is also very cool. When I went pretty much all I looked at was that and the U-505... I mean, I stood this close to the actual Apollo 8 command module. How awesome is that?
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When I was in school (5th grade) we went to a place in the city called the "Challenger Learning Center". Basically we got to play astronaut for a day flying a pretend mission. One group was mission control and the other was the crew after a while we switched. We had to communicate information back and forth and perform science experiments. I remember my task was to analyze the fake moon rocks and track the orbit of the space craft on the "Big Board".
Also once at the air show I got to see a demonstration of the heat tiles from the shuttle. A person from NASA was there and put some kind of torch to it till it glowed. I think met some people who flew aboard the shuttle at one point but I was really little at the time.