Monday, November 28, 2016

Alamogordo


Today was still windy. We could see the sand storms over at White Sands. The funny part was that we went to see Fantastic Beasts. In it there is a beast that is a dark amorphous wind. When we stepped outside the cinema, the skies were dark and swirling with high winds. Scary!

The Museum of Space History is in town. There is a lot of local history in rocketry and space with the White Sands Missile Range nearby. We had fun crashing the shuttle and experiencing the sound and vibrations of take-off in simulations. Even the elevator is cool!
The museum has a moon rock, the gravesite of Ham the 1st astrochimp, and cans from Skylab. BTW, John worked at Central States Can when they made the EZ-Open lids used in space.

Gene Roddenberry was in the most recent International Space Hall of Fame class. There is a major section on Star Trek.

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