Sunday morning we were up and on our bus by 9 am for transport to Dulles and the Udvar-Hazy Center. There Jim Brice gave us very good tours of the displays, including a Concorde, an SR-71 Blackbird (I've seen at least five different ones now), the Enola Gay, the Winnie Mae, the Space Shuttle orbiter Enterprise(!), and more. After the tour, we spent another couple hours having lunch, exploring the museum, and doing photo ops, then we headed back to the House for an hour of downtime before the alumni started arriving for the "BBQ" (read: sandwiches, no cooking out, grilling, or barbeque sause of any kind... silly NE people). At the picnic, we got to meet a lot of the alumni from all the NASA Academies over the years, and many people ended up playing soccer, frisbee, and football. After a few hours, Elizabeth and I took the Metro back into DC to get away from it all and see some the monuments at sunset/night before the big Deep Impact event at the University of Maryland.
We made it back right before 11 pm when about sixty or so of us and twenty other NASA program people in a neighboring frat house walked in a huge group over to the Physics Lecture Hall on campus for the event. After a couple hours of lectures from the scientists involved (and some crafty poster acquisition) the impact happened successfully at 2 am. We were pretty much completely worn out after that and were back at the house by 3 am. I think I probably logged over a dozen slow miles of walking this day, and got a slightly twisted knee and some very sore feet and blisters out of it. The things we got to see were totally worth it, though.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment