Oh, little X-38 vehicle. I cry a little tiny tear for you every time I visit and you're pushed further into a corner.  

I get a kick out of this picture because I'm sitting down on the ground with the other staff, quite tired, looking up at these guys, and it's a fun angle. They're excited to be there :-) 

Critical
Flight Director Paul Dye gives us a Critical Decision Making class.
 

JSC Office of Education presentation in Teague. 

Motion-based simulator 

Watch! As they mingle. Or not. This is after lunch outside one of the delicious JSC cafeterias.  

One of our wonderful hosts, alumnus Paul Gosling. 

Awesome spider robot design... 

more mockups 

Mockups in building 9... 

Then the basics of a JSC tour... Robonaut... 

Flight Director (and NASA Academy alumna) Holly Ridings tells us about the current Flight Control Rooms. 

The current Mission Control Room for Shuttle 

Jeff Hanley, Program Manager of Constellation, welcomes us to the first day of tours at Johnson. 

Then back to the building first thing on Thursday morning, looking all snazzy. 

Examining the room afterward. 

People on the screen representing people who were in this room who pulled off one of NASA's most amazing missions... bringing those guys home.  

Then the special treat of watching Apollo 13, in the actual Apollo Control Room. 

Group shot time. 

Milt Heflin, former Chief of the Flight Director Office and current Deputy Director of the Mission Operations Directorate (and Oklahoma native), welcomes us to Johnson and the MCC.