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Topic: JSC Advice?
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DavidH
Member Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 01-29-2004 01:01 PM
   
In about a week, I get to visit Johnson Space Center for the first time. Any advice on things I definitely need to see/do while I'm at JSC or in the area?------------------
"America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." - Commander Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Mission, 11 December 1972 |
pokey
Member Posts: 361
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 01-29-2004 01:33 PM
Will you be badged for JSC? |
DavidH
Member Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 01-29-2004 01:42 PM
I'm attending the ISS Educator's Conference. Several area tours are included, and we're allowed some "on our own" time, but I don't know what that means, exactly. I'm pretty sure we won't be allowed to just roam free. So, point being, we'll have some access, I just don't know what the limits are.------------------
"America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." - Commander Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Mission, 11 December 1972 |
BMckay
Member Posts: 3218
From: MA, USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 01-29-2004 01:58 PM
Check out the Outpost Tavern (check to see if the have a Challenger tee shirt on the wall - I gave it to them) and Pe Te's (near Ellington AFB). The food is fine- cajun style. The photos on the walls are worth the trip to both.If you lock your car keys in the car at The Space Center Houston, they will call security and open the car right up for you. They were very nice to me.
Bryan
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micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 01-29-2004 02:51 PM
Also check out Frenchy's restaraunt at the corner of NASA Road 1 and El Camino - another place with some good astronaut pix and great Italian food.At Space Center Houston, check out the movie (really good and unique to SCH), full scale Orbiter nose & cockpit mockup, Apollo 17, the lunar surface diorama (John Young worked with them to get the lighting and look correct), Gemini 5, and MA-9. If you can get into Bldg 2 on site, one of the old Lunar Landing Training Vehicles is just outside the Teague Auditorium and pretty neat to see. |
MrMoon
Member Posts: 23
From: Pennsylvania
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 01-29-2004 03:14 PM
Rent Space Cowboy before you go, the bar they go to and have a fight outside of is the actual Outpost, which is on NASA Rd. about three blocks down and on the other side of the street from the NASA main gate. Frenchies is directly accross the street from the Outpost. You can also read Dragonfly, they talk about George Abby and his excursions to Frenchies and the Outpost. Have fun
Bill Walton
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BMckay
Member Posts: 3218
From: MA, USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 01-30-2004 10:30 AM
Max Q will be playing that Friday night. I heard they are fun to watch and are very nice to people after the show. |
DavidH
Member Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 01-30-2004 11:45 AM
Where?! When?! Oh, man, cool!------------------
"America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." - Commander Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Mission, 11 December 1972 |
lunarrv15
Member Posts: 1355
From: Cincinnati, Ohio, Hamilton
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 01-30-2004 01:08 PM
I think at the Ramada Inn across the street from the center. check Ramada markey.can you inquire for hard to request photos with your badge? |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 02-14-2004 12:16 AM
Hi Dave,
You'll have fun seeing Max Q! They were at last year's AHOF induction weekend at KSC.
A note of interest - Jim Wetherbee, the drummer is an original member from 18 years ago! He is also a six-time shuttle astronaut and a really nice guy!
When I met him after the 'gig' I told him that I saw him launch aboard STS-113 Endeavour in person and he quipped back, "Oh, yeah! I remember that! You didn't see me waving at you?!"
Take lots of photos for us!
Rob |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-14-2004 12:28 AM
I also saw Max Q at the AHOF induction a couple of years ago, and met Jim Weatherbee, too. Really cool guy. It was a pleasure to talk to him and the other members of the band. Yes, I got their autographs, too! |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 02-14-2004 01:53 PM
David,
Let me know what your official tours include. If they include a visit to the Apollo-era MCC (Bldg 30). I'll be more than happy to give you a talk in the old MOCR (Mission Operations Copntrol Room) where I worked as an EECOM flight controller for so many years. Have the conference coordinator contact me at JSC: 281-244-8412; e-mail: slieberg@ems.jsc.nasa.gov.
My book URL: www.apolloeecom.com
Sy quote:
Originally posted by DavidH:
I'm attending the ISS Educator's Conference. Several area tours are included, and we're allowed some "on our own" time, but I don't know what that means, exactly. I'm pretty sure we won't be allowed to just roam free. So, point being, we'll have some access, I just don't know what the limits are.
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