Trip to NASA April 2007

Our Trip to Johnson Space Center
Dr. William V. Slaton, Holly A. Smith,
& Christa M. (Fisher) Harbor
April 1-3, 2007

Sunday April 1st

Galveston Beach: The day before we headed to NASA we decided to go for a nice calming walk on the beach.

Christa & Holly getting their toes wet

Monday April 2nd

Day 2 of our trip consisted of meeting Chris Allen and other acousticians who work at Johnson Space Center's Acoustics Office which is part of Johnson Space Center's Habitability & Environmental Factors Division. We presented our Arkansas Space Grant Consortium sponsored research on Aeroacoustic Excitation of Acoustic Resonance and Thermoacoustic Quality Factor Enhancement . We also got to tour the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility!

Pictures of the shuttle mock ups used to train the astronauts.

Us getting into the shuttle!	Listening to our guide Adam, a real astronaut trainer, tell us about how the astronauts cook, sleep, shower, and store trash in this area.
Us in the cockpit!	Captain Slaton!
A space suit	Part of the International Space Station mock up

Behind Adam, real astronauts were training in this mock up! You can see them on the t.v. screen at the right hand side of the picture.

Russian shuttle mock up

Inside Russian shuttle mock up. Boy was it tiny!

Tuesday April 3rd

On day 3 we got to be tourists at the visitors' center: Space Center Houston!

Mission control during the Apollo missions	Astronauts' and engineers' work stations
This is where the astronauts practice using the International Space Station's robotic arm.	A tourist's view of the mock ups we went into on Monday.
We took a tram tour of all of Johnson Space Center	One stop on the tram was to view these trees. There is one tree for each astronaut who has passed away on a mission.