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Topic: Overheard while touring the space museum
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FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 08-14-2008 10:16 PM
  
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Originally posted by Machodoc:
Still, I'd love nothing better than to try and ease myself down into an Apollo cockpit just once.
Although it looks a little less detailed than the one Robert is in in that Kansas photo, the mockup at the visitor center in Huntsville is fun to get in too...  |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 08-16-2008 09:48 AM
I remember that ole thing. I recall it was there in the main museum hall when I went to Space Camp in 1985. It was interesting squeezing into it with other campers on the day before camp started and we got a feel for how small it was (and we weren't big either, although this was the Level 2 teenager camp).Who knows, maybe one day I can build my own full size mockup to climb into.  |
Mr Meek
Member Posts: 353
From: Chattanooga, TN
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 08-16-2008 04:21 PM
The one in Huntsville used to be a trainer at JSC. The Cosmosphere's mockup was a set piece for the "Space" miniseries. (Thanks, Field Guide to American Spacecraft!)On the topic, I've heard my share of "not quite" information from tour guides. Sometimes it's a concession to the requirement of passing along a lot of information in a short amount of time. Other times, it's just a bored teenager running through the motions of their summer job. Thus why I tend to avoid the guided tours at most museums. |
JD
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posted 08-16-2008 11:44 PM
To me, the most egregious incident of space ignorance occurred when Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee asked during a visit to JPL if Mars Pathfinder had taken a photo of the flag Neil Armstrong planted in 1969. Jackson Lee is not only from Houston, but a member of the House Science Committee's space subcommittee. |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 08-17-2008 01:23 PM
On one of the college Jeopardy! shows this past week none of the three contestants knew that Columbia was the first space shuttle launched. However, one of them did guess incorrectly...Discovery! |
Bob M
Member Posts: 1744
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-17-2008 03:12 PM
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Originally posted by Rob Joyner:
On one of the college Jeopardy! shows this past week none of the three contestants knew that Columbia was the first space shuttle launched. However, one of them did guess incorrectly...Discovery!
...and one of the young contestants on that show identified a picture of Charles Lindbergh as "Yeager." |
spacecraft films
Member Posts: 802
From: Columbus, OH USA
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 08-17-2008 03:35 PM
But it was "Teen" Jeopardy Tournament, not "College" Jeopardy.They actually didn't do very well at all in the space category. I think they left either 2 or 3 of the questions without answers. |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 08-26-2008 06:31 PM
I just received one of those chain emails from an old neighbor with the notice below. Get your popcorn ready. *Two moons on 27 August 2008*
*27th Aug this year is the Whole World is waiting for............*Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August. It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles off earth..
Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It will look like the earth has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-26-2008 06:42 PM
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Originally posted by MCroft04:
I just received one of those chain emails from an old neighbor with the notice below.
MSNBC's Alan Boyle just wrote about this particularly persistent urban legend on the Cosmic Log: Mars Hoax Lasts Five Years |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 08-27-2008 12:34 PM
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Originally posted by MCroft04:
I just received one of those chain emails from an old neighbor with the notice below. Get your popcorn ready.
I've been lucky so far. I haven't received this email in my own account or our astro club email. Fortunately, I've trained mom not to get excited about this and forward it to me. Ugh!Tom |
spaceychick
Member Posts: 35
From: Lockport, IL USA
Registered: Sep 2008
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posted 09-25-2008 11:42 AM
I know this posting is a bit out of date, but hey -- I'm a newbie and wanted to get my 2 cents in. I grew up outside of Chicago, so I saw the Apollo 8 and the Aurora 7 ships on a fairly regular basis growing up (Museum of Science and Industry -- still one of my favorites)and visited KSC for the first time back in 1975, so I had a very basic understanding of our space program. Many years later when I started teaching Earth Science I was appalled that the chapter on Earth's moon and satellites briefly mentioned that a man named Neil Arstrong walked on the moon in 1969. "Is that it?," I thought. My students were under the impression he somehow accomplished this feat on his own. I have to admit, I myself wasn't sure of the whole story either, no one had ever taught me about the Space Race. That was when I took it upon myself to delve into the subject deeper, and hense, a space geek was born! I am now the resident expert on all things astronautical! My husband is always pulling me away from people at museums doling out inaccurate information to their kids(I'm afraid I've seen teachers doing the same thing to their students). I agree that there is nothing wrong with telling a child, "I don't know," as long as you add, "But I can try to find the answer." Learning is a life long process and we must all play a part in educating out youth. The moon landings our one of our nation's greatest accomplishments and I think ALL students should know the history of NASA and our space program. Lisa ------------------
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