real update soon, or update real soon

Yeah, yeah, I'm behind again. I have the entire Florida post to do and stuff on what we've done in the last week. We went to the Dayton airshow and saw a Harrier demo and the Blue Angels to all of the stereotypical music you'd expect. But it was a lovely day with cool aircraft and good times. Then today I got sushi. Now I need a haircut. I've been feeling a bit sick and it's late, so those updates must wait. Later.

Yeah, this is me and Endeavour

 

Good Florida trip. 

in FL

We are in Florida. The house is freakin' awesome, the tours for tomorrow look excellent, and the cars we rented are pimpin'. Good times.

to KSC

Off to Florida tonight for KSC trips, etc. Let us hope the house has internet. I know it has a pool, so that's sweet. We're totally going to see things at KSC that I didn't get to see last year, so that's very good. There's super FOD warnings, so I have a tiny hope we'll see an Orbiter around... can always hope :-)

Hmmm... I had more pictures of Plum Brook, but I cannot find them. I'll put them up later if I find them.

At the bottom. 

More of the crew. 

Around the top of the test chamber. 

Making the Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility. 

Kinda rainy, but here we go into the first building... 

So that was Houston. Next: Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, OH.

This is a secondary branch of Glenn Research Center where there are some testing facilities that are fairly cool.

But before, I dropped off the students at the beach in Galveston. 

Later I went to have dinner with Aunt Susan, and I finally got to meet my cousin-puppies. 

Marshal hung out with us for the weekend, which was pretty darn cool.  

Body Worlds ... let's just say, if you want to see pictures, check the websites.
If you don't... eh. We all thought it was pretty cool.
Body Worlds III
Body Worlds at HMNH

The next day we were off to the Houston Museum of Natural Science for more learnin'. 

I also got to catch up with Ms. Becky in her lovely apartment home.  

The Super Guppy. 

Shelley tells us about the WB-57, with which I had a couple of projects.  

Pushing the DC-9 "Vomit Comet" out of the hangar where my office used to be in spring 2003. 

Yay 

Sometimes I miss my pretty airplanes. 

My (awesome) mentor from Aircraft Ops Engineering, Kevin Lesenski, welcomes us to our tours at Ellington Field.  

Michael Baine explains VASIMR to the Academy students. 

Group shot with the big pool. Neutral Buoyancy is a technique space folks sometimes use to simulate zero-gravity through exactly balancing the floaty-ness and sinking-ness of objects in a pool with floats and weights. Then they stick the astronauts down in their EVA suits and they practice spacewalks, with the help of a team of NASA SCUBA divers.  

ExtraVehicular Activity (EVA = spacewalk) talk the next morning at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at the Sonny Carter Training Facility.  

Meeting up with old friends... Ryan, me, Kyle, and Kyle's fiance(!) Heidi.  

I do love walking shots. Going to dinner with the other Academies at Kemah.  

Inside part of the horizontal hab prelim mockup. 

And here we are in the vertical habitat preliminary mockup. 

Okay, so here's the ideas for the surface habitats... model version...