I'm a little bit happy here.  

From behind ropes, of course, because there's no way they'd let us walk right up to it, and looking up into the landing gear. 

And then there's a freaking orbiter. Right there. Atlantis is in front of us. Right there. I was pretty overwhelmed. 

FOD safety first... tether those glasses, tape your rings... 

Seriously... I've been waiting the five years of my NASA career for this..... 

Note the ominous clouds. They'll make a play later... 

Approaching one of the largest buildings in the world. We're still a couple miles out. 

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 KSC that will be taken to the ISS in the near future. 

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. I kinda loved them.  

Alumna Vanessa Stroh introduces the RAs to the mission of ISS and the her work on it. 

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 (VAB) from miles and miles away. 

More. 

Wait, wait, going back, a moment... While driving to KSC, we saw a bunch of cool hot air balloons at sunrise. Rock. 

Florida is pretty much beautiful all the time. 

Here we go with the FL pics. Here's some ISS mockups. 

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.