Florida 2012 Day IV: NASA JFK Space Center!

I have decided to post my blogs about my family vacation to Florida from 8/15 to 8/20.

Here's the second one, August 17th: our day at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral!
(These are directly transcribed from my written diary on my iPad.)

At this NASA Center, we first took a lot of pictures, then we checked out the Early Space Exploration exhibit, waiting for the lunch with the astronaut Charlie Walker. He presented about "food in space"while we ate fried ravioli, salad, TANG, and apple pie. Then, I asked a question during the Q&A. We proceeded to take pictures with Charlie Walker and then watched the old IMAX movie about the International Space Center. We continued to check out some of the NASA art before the shuttle and simulator. (I went, the 3 wimps didn't!) Then I went to the Space Store to wait for the Charlie Walker signing, buying some reasonably priced souvenirs for me and Adi. I went to the Hubble 3D at a later showing than my family, and had a nice chat with my lovely roommate while waiting in line. Hubble 3D was awe-inspiring! I snuck some pictures :) Then after a quick picture with the Space Shuttle Inspiration we returned on the road to Orlando.

NASA is so inspirational because they are a program that never gets the funding they need, always is on the cutting edge of the world/universe, and are doing the inspirational work of still always finding somewhere else to wander--always discovering new lands, new times. I would love to be involved with them some time in the future, and through my TO class I get an exposure I would not otherwise!

Here are some pictures from that trip:

xoxo,

maithreyi

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