Huntsville in the Fall?

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 3:37 pm

Well yeah so basically they say the same thing every time. A good counselor won't sound like they are reading it from the manual. I had a counselor do that once. That was BAD. Anyway Smiley and Stevo were REALLY good at that. They are the coolest counselors ever.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 5:05 pm

Well you'll get basicly an overview of what langley did for the mercury gemini and apollo as well as shuttle and unmanned programs and some of its earlier history before the NACA became NASA. Youd be suprised just how much Langley has done for aviation and space over the years and still is. I'll also take you to a feew parts of the museum the regular public wont see normally.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 8:36 pm

WOO HOO! I am special! Yay me! Please just don't bore me out of my mind....I may lose it.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:11 pm

I hope this doesn't come as a shock, but I think you've already lost it.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:53 pm

I don't think she lost it i know she lost it i've known that for the last month.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 11:35 pm

Well go figure. I just don't want to get bored with random stuff. I have really awesome Space Camp pictures! I have a lanyard! Woo hoO! I will also bring it all in my backpack so I can fit it all and you can see my bad sewing techniques.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 11:40 pm

Well ill bring my pictures and my hat with all the poins so you can see them all. So we'll look equally crazy.

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 3:15 pm

Right now you sound crazy.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 7:12 pm

Well I will even wear it. It makes me look cool. Not sure if you can handle the coolness that is my lanyard!

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 7:58 pm

LOL you really are obsessed with that thing arent you?

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 9:16 pm

She's obsessed with it almost as much as space camp itself.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 2:05 am

Well the lanyard represents all that is space camp. The thing has its own special place on my wall! I can look at it easily from my computer and have all my memories of space camp come back to me. Of course, SPACE CAMP itself is way cooler than my lanyard. I find it hard to believe that something could be much cooler than that.....

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 6:35 pm

Well i have my pin hat sitting over by my TV on the tail of my large shuttle orbiter model. I can easily see it from my computer. I'd put it on top of my computer but everything i put up there falls off.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 7:31 pm

Obviously your computer is cursed. I have my inflatable shuttle and my LEM just chilling on my dresser. My cat sits on my monitor so I can't really put anything up there. He would just knock it off.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 7:36 pm

Well the computer i ussualy use back in my room sits on cardboard boxes that have stiuff in it and it doesnt sit exactly level so its easy for stuff to fall off. I have a Mercry capsule i wanted to put up there but its too unstable even on a flat surface.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:27 pm

Your computer sits on cardboard boxes? That would make it pretty easy for stuff to fall of then I guess....

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:35 pm

Well the boxes are full its just the tops are still soft so its not completely level on top of the minitor.

ApolloXI · Post by **ApolloXI** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:21 pm

As most of you know I went to the centennial of the first flight made by humans at the USSRC. My father and I got in line waited for about five minutes to get our admission tickets. I guess the person at the ticket counter saw my Space Camp wings’ and knew that I knew the museum because he had explained to others about the events going on that day and not to us. We where planning to see the IMAX version of Apollo XIII but it had only one showing and it was at 4:00 Pm, which was not convenient for us . The ticket check desk was moved from right in front of the tunnel close to the front of the main gift shop. Spaceaddict said that they didn’t have the flight jackets back in May but I found them in a different spot than normal. I think that they might be changing their style of camp clothes from having the three icons of SC and AC, there where some sweats that had what is known as varsity font, which is most found on college clothes. But this could also be because they had Space Camp California t-shirts for cheap. My father and I went different directions, I went to the history of the STS. The new exhibit is really low key to Space Campers but good for the general public. One thing in the exhibit I think that might have been used at the camp was the MMU on display. The traveling Hubble exhibit was really high tech and fancy. Some of the TVs they had where plasma screens that could project computer images. The real “centennial” part was right in front of the TCF. One guy had his own flight history memorabilia, which included stuff from letters from one of the Wright Brothers to the other and autographs and photos of modern space explorers. They even had a letter from a director of the Space program, which includes a paw print of Able Baker’s. Some of the stuff the collector had was even personally addressed to him. After his display was a student’s display of the flying machine seen above the TCF. The person presenting the paper was drafted from his friend and professor Brian Landrum at UAH. It mainly talked about how thing worked. I mainly talked to him about UAH because that is one of the schools I am planning to apply to. The last “centennial” display was not a display but a person, a member of the WASPs, which was a military group of women who ferried planes across the country and tested new ones during WWII. I had seen a PBS special about them and I felt that they had great courage to do what they did. I felt it was such a great honor to be talking to her. She said that the one thing she doesn’t really like about the military is the separation of people who trained together and sometimes. But she thought that SC, the space program, and AC kept the idea of being a group who has been trained together. After thins that I saw was the local flight and space type clubs in the Huntsville area. I had planned to see Nathan Williams a.k.a Smiley but I didn’t see him and most of the people working at the camp info desk where AC people so didn’t ask. I saw Brent but he was busy herding a group of campers so I let him continue on his way. Most of the other counselors I didn’t recognize from when I went. I wanted to go on a tour of SC but my father didn’t really care too. Plus if I had had no time constraints and my father with me, I might have asked if I could volunteer at the camp info desk. For those who are wondering about the remolding of the TCF not much was done from what I remember since December expect a little rearrangement and a building right next to the Enterprise MOCOR.

ApolloXI · Post by **ApolloXI** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 10:37 pm

For more information on the Wasp here is a pbs link http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:11 am

Well sounds like you had a good trip. Wish i could have gone to see it. But then i wish i could go down there anytime for that matter.

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