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Went to Goddard Space Flight Center
Sep. 13th, 2008 06:22 pmWe got to see the Hi-Bay. There was a satellite in the Clean Room (the SDO). The centrifuge was in operation (just for show, not testing).
We spent hours on the Earth Observing stuff, and a few Mars testing things in the same area. So we really had to rush through the other areas.
The link to the LaunchFest is here. There was just too much stuff to see. But Emily and her friend were very happy to see what they did see.
There were off-site parking areas with buses. And buses to circulate people from building to building. But the circulation buses turned into a major disaster and sometimes went on different routes than they were supposed to. There was a prize for going to all the buildings, but they decided to make it 4 out of 6 in the end. T really wanted to go to the spacecraft fabrication/machine shop building, but there was no time.
We were there with three visitors from Italy, who spoke, umm, no English (a little English--like first year in school). The two adults who spoke both English and Italian spent a lot of time translating. One of the visitors from Italy was fascinated with spacesuit fabrics and there was a long back-and-forth through the translator about it.
Oh, and the kids got their names written in Braille.
We spent hours on the Earth Observing stuff, and a few Mars testing things in the same area. So we really had to rush through the other areas.
The link to the LaunchFest is here. There was just too much stuff to see. But Emily and her friend were very happy to see what they did see.
There were off-site parking areas with buses. And buses to circulate people from building to building. But the circulation buses turned into a major disaster and sometimes went on different routes than they were supposed to. There was a prize for going to all the buildings, but they decided to make it 4 out of 6 in the end. T really wanted to go to the spacecraft fabrication/machine shop building, but there was no time.
We were there with three visitors from Italy, who spoke, umm, no English (a little English--like first year in school). The two adults who spoke both English and Italian spent a lot of time translating. One of the visitors from Italy was fascinated with spacesuit fabrics and there was a long back-and-forth through the translator about it.
Oh, and the kids got their names written in Braille.
