NASA VIP Tour Post III

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A few more Mission Control photos:

From the Apollo Mission Control:



This is the Red Phone.

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The pneumatic tubes that carried messages (long long before email or faxes)

From the new Mission Control:


Another view of the new mission control, while the ship was docking with the space station.



The flight director's station.


The view from the space station's camera, and the Russian ship's camera.


More later. An astronaut is going to do a presentation at the con, with video of his shuttle mission. Then I'm doing my programming pretty much for the rest of the day.

Friday I had the Opening Ceremonies, plus:

8:00 PM Not So Happily Ever After - Alexis Glynn Latner (M), Derly Ramirez, Martha Wells, Rhonda Eudaly, Stina Leicht
On the real endings of fairy tales, origins, implications, etc.

Today it will be:

12:00 noon No WEMs Allowed: Multiculturalism Steampunk - Alexis Glatner, Kathy Thornton, Martha Wells, O.M. Grey (M), Mel White

1:00 Autographing

3:00 Guest of Honor interview

4:00 guest of honor reading