Space Shuttle Atlantis: Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space Shuttle Discovery: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington, DC
Space Shuttle Endeavour: California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA
Space Shuttle Enterprise: USS Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY
FIELD TRIPS!
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 12, 2011, 07:02:45 PM
Space Shuttle Atlantis: Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space Shuttle Discovery: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington, DC
Space Shuttle Endeavour: California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA
Space Shuttle Enterprise: USS Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY
FIELD TRIPS!
Oh, yes, very yes.
Oh fuck yeah! Will be hitting the LA one with a stick soon! Woohoo! I also proposed a summer trip to Wash, DC and Williamsburg, VA (this IS the sesquicentennial of the Civil War...good year to go), so we could see that one, too, if it's already landed in its new spot.
Quote from: Jenne on April 12, 2011, 07:21:17 PM
Oh fuck yeah! Will be hitting the LA one with a stick soon! Woohoo! I also proposed a summer trip to Wash, DC and Williamsburg, VA (this IS the sesquicentennial of the Civil War...good year to go), so we could see that one, too, if it's already landed in its new spot.
Shit, hit Gettysburg while you're at it. It's not too far out of the way.
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 12, 2011, 07:32:15 PM
Quote from: Jenne on April 12, 2011, 07:21:17 PM
Oh fuck yeah! Will be hitting the LA one with a stick soon! Woohoo! I also proposed a summer trip to Wash, DC and Williamsburg, VA (this IS the sesquicentennial of the Civil War...good year to go), so we could see that one, too, if it's already landed in its new spot.
Shit, hit Gettysburg while you're at it. It's not too far out of the way.
Ooh, yeah, totally. I'm thinking if we hit it in June, the weather might not be TOO shitty...but then I hit NOLA in July, so, yeah. :lulz:
Might I also suggest Providence? :mrgreen:
:lulz: Yeah, you wouldn't be too far away, huh? Once I get it all planned out, I'll let fly if I have an evening to go up and visit folks. That would be awesomesauce. I did that when we went to Seattle a few years back and met my friend and author, Yasmine Galenorn.
I planted the seed in Himself's brain yesterday or today (disremember which), so we'll see if it takes root.
Actually, Boston/Providence/NYC are kind of their own region compared to the DC/Baltimore area. We're 5-6 hours from Gettysburg on a good day.
What? Nothing for Huntsville?
:x
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on April 12, 2011, 08:11:46 PM
What? Nothing for Huntsville?
:x
YOU HAVE YOUR SATURN V!
Same with Houston too, come to think of it.
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on April 12, 2011, 08:11:46 PM
What? Nothing for Huntsville?
:x
They may get the Vostok still.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
(not that I've actually been there in the last twenty years or anything)
Call me crazy, but given incidents from the past, I think they should reserve announcing the final resting spots of the shuttles with remaining missions until they land safely back on Earth for the last time. Seems like it might be tempting fate just a tad.
Space Shuttle Challenger: About 3 miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral
Space Shuttle Columbia: Strewn across a fair chunk of Texas
...Okay, not cool, I know. But when I lived a 10 year fallout with Challenger, and then having to watch my dad burst into tears with Columbia, it's kinda fucking easy for me to make light of them blowing.
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on April 12, 2011, 08:11:46 PM
What? Nothing for Huntsville?
:x
This was my thought as well-Huntsville is a much shorter trip than Kennedy (closest of the four for me).
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 12, 2011, 08:37:47 PM
Space Shuttle Challenger: About 3 miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral
Space Shuttle Columbia: Strewn across a fair chunk of Texas
...Okay, not cool, I know. But when I lived a 10 year fallout with Challenger, and then having to watch my dad burst into tears with Columbia, it's kinda fucking easy for me to make light of them blowing.
How old were you? (Challenger)
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on April 13, 2011, 04:22:20 AM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on April 12, 2011, 08:37:47 PM
Space Shuttle Challenger: About 3 miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral
Space Shuttle Columbia: Strewn across a fair chunk of Texas
...Okay, not cool, I know. But when I lived a 10 year fallout with Challenger, and then having to watch my dad burst into tears with Columbia, it's kinda fucking easy for me to make light of them blowing.
How old were you? (Challenger)
Three and a half, and I remember it on TV vividly because of my mom freaking out and then my dad coming home early. (I have a crazy memory. I also remember when my brother was born and Hurricane Gloria the previous year.) Dad worked for Grumman and it was his parts that were faulty. Someone forged his signature when he refused to send the parts...it was a mess. It didn't get cleared up until like 1996, right when that big ol' chunk of her washed up on Cocoa.
I got used to having guys from NASA and the FBI over A LOT. :/
Columbia I was with Herbert at his parents' house, and my phone rings while I was in bed, "Suu, the shuttle just went. Get home before your dad has a breakdown." And then I got to watch replays of the fucker over and over again.
I have had nightmares of Discovery going next. It's not cool.
I was 10. At school.
It was lunch time and we all went outside to watch.
....
:sad:
It still makes me sad. Both of em. Especially my mom calling me about Columbia crying like a child and I had to calm her down and remind her that they knew they were taking a risk and they did it for SCIENCE. (yeah I used those words.. right then)
I had just turned 18 when the Challenger was lost. I think every school across America had kids in classes or assembly halls watching the take off because of Christa McAuliffe. We were in the auditorium and they had the newscast showing on the big screen. :sad:
Columbia was a Saturday and we were at the beach with the kids, the boys were trying to skim board. Dad called mom on her cell. I just remember trying to explain to the boys why she and I were so sad when they really didn't understand what was going on.
Quote from: Sir Squid Diddimus on April 13, 2011, 05:06:05 AM
I was 10. At school.
It was lunch time and we all went outside to watch.
....
:sad:
It still makes me sad. Both of em. Especially my mom calling me about Columbia crying like a child and I had to calm her down and remind her that they knew they were taking a risk and they did it for SCIENCE. (yeah I used those words.. right then)
It was fucking horrible. I may have been little, but seeing your father's work literally go up in flames isn't easy. I remember for years we had this huge model of a shuttle he built, and he would show us the parts he worked on, and then demonstrate how the tanks would separate and how the craft would turn into the window. Having the Space Program on your resume is priceless, unfortunately, having a mark like, "My parts are what blew the Challenger" isn't. There is someone rotting in jail for a long time for forging my dad's name, as well as 7 counts of manslaughter.
He's not doing any work for Space X, but he is still doing pieces for NASA. He's got parts on the Hubble and the ISS. It's cool shit, aerospace.
On the other end of the spectrum, my grandfather also worked for Grumman, and did parts for the Lunar Module. His engines on the capsule are what saved Apollo 13.