Yeah, that's my purple leg hanging out of the door. The door wasn't closed for a lot of the trip up... Ascending to 18,000 feet while slightly hanging out of an airplane is a pretty wild ride.
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An Oklahoma student's experiences in NASA and international space programs...
I've worked at NASA JSC, Ames, MSFC, and GRC. I've been involved with ISU, Space Generation, Next Generation Exploration Conference, and more; I've mentored for Texas Aerospace Scholars and Intl Space School and helped with NASA's Reduced Gravity Flight program. Basically, I love the idea of space exploration, and I'm dedicating my career to sharing that passion.
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- Back in Oklahoma. Tomorrow is update day.
- Since Florida... (preview)
- for those about to rock...
- That's it.
- Frank and I had the same tandem guy.
- More getting into the plane
- Omar was our alumni host, and jumped with us (alon...
- Yeah, flight suits
- I appreciate any chance to wear a flight suit. Ev...
- Here we were during prep time...
- Taking off...
- Yeah, that's my purple leg hanging out of the door...
- Getting in the airplane
- We love our Charlie's Angels poses.
- Our skydiving GRC group 2006
- Covered pool area in the vacation home I rented.
- Florida has about 3 cows, and we saw them all.
- Pretty.
- So that was the KSC tours. A couple days later, c...
- That's the launch pad over there.
- Beautiful, beautiful Florida. This is where I wat...
- But the vehicles are so heavy that they crush the ...
- The river rock Crawler path leads up to the launch...
- Cables go from the launch pad to these deceleratio...
- That was the part of the fence lined up with the f...
- Perimeter fence deformation from the last launch
- Approaching the 39B launch pad
- Some freaking beautiful clouds that day. And torn...
- But we couldn't actually go over there.
- But we couldn'
- an ET over there...(external tank)
- Cut-away to show the cooling system
- Space Shuttle Main Engine, real life size.
- Into the VAB. It's very big
- Yeah. That was pretty freaking amazing.
- These marks are from little balls of plasma from r...
- Our pretty awesome tour guide Shawn Marsee.
- This is me holding a flown tile.
- Get an impromptu lecture on the tiles.
- That's the leading edge of the wing back there.
- Lots and lots of pictures
- Do some pictures toward the rear.
- Do some pictures toward the nose.
- Learn a lot about the thermal protection system
- We get some excellent information on the Shuttle
- And then we are ushered UNDER it. We're under an ...
- To meet Endeavour.
- So that was OV-104, what most people think of as "...
- I'm a little bit happy here.
- From behind ropes, of course, because there's no w...
- And then there's a freaking orbiter. Right there....
- FOD safety first... tether those glasses, tape you...
- Seriously... I've been waiting the five years of m...
- Note the ominous clouds. They'll make a play late...
- Approaching one of the largest buildings in the wo...
- Hanging on the tour bus.
- This is how big they are in real life.
- Some real live modules.
- Vanessa talks about the actual flight hardware at ...
- We're happy to be there for some excellent tours.
- Frank is tall.
- Checking out those ISS mockups
- Visitor Center
- The gorgeous cars we were sporting for the FL trip...
- Alumna Vanessa Stroh introduces the RAs to the mis...
- Waiting for the first briefing of the day.
- Sauntering up to the Education Resource Center.
- Rocket Garden at the Visitor Center
- First glimpse of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VA...
- More.
- Wait, wait, going back, a moment... While driving ...
- Florida is pretty much beautiful all the time.
- Here we go with the FL pics. Here's some ISS mock...
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