Castles made of sand…

a butterfly.

I did my good deed for the day: I helped jump start the vehicle of some neighbors who were trying to go to the beach. I was on my way to the beach too.

There was a sight to see on the way there. One shuttle sitting on each launch pad. Its significant because its history in the making. This is only the seventh time that both shuttles have been on the pads, and the last time that this will ever happen.

Atlantis on the left, Endeavour on the right.

Hello birdy!

Visitors Center, External Tank

Visitors Center, Shuttle Launch Experience ride… which was pretty darn cool.

Visitors Center, NASA Jet on display

Visitors Center, Night sky ball floating on water

Visitors Center, Rocket Garden

Model of ISS at completion (Note: Its actually missing one of the solar arrays).

VAB up close

Looking up in the VAB… some 500 feet up. This picture doesn’t do it justice, you have to see it for yourself.

This a picture of the underside of the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) as it sits in the VAB. This captures the scale: the top of the picture is the bottom of the MLP; underneath you can see standard equipment and how small it looks.

Bottom side of the Orbiter and effect of re-entry on the thermal tiles.

Underside of the Orbiter, surrounded by much equipment, sitting in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF)

Saturn V rocket… is big.

Saturn V crew module.

That was painful. Migrated site to new web host. Apparently WordPress did not like this. But that may just have been that I failed to have a local copy of the theme I was using. I think everything is back to normal.

In other news. I bought a new camera, a FujiFilm S700. You can see the quality of the new camera as the picture of the old camera, which looks better, was taken with the new camera.

The Kodak has seen more than 3,500 photos. Rest in peace(s).

Today went excitingly well for my first day at work. On the way in…