Well there is a lot of esplainin’ to do Lucy.\u00a0 I miss blogging, I hate my blog’s look, I don’t have time to figure out how to make it pretty and I can’t find someone to pay.\u00a0 So there you have the answer to the\u00a0 mystery of where I have been.<\/p>\n
NOW here we go starting back out with a blog series just for this little trip to Florida.\u00a0 Let me tell you how it began.\u00a0 KLT mentioned that @nasa was doing a tweetup for the upcoming launch and that we should register, but they were only taking 150.\u00a0 He said we’d leave it in God’s hands.\u00a0 I saw the tweet from @nasa saying today is the last day and you have 30 minutes to register.\u00a0 So I did what any good woman would do and registered us both.\u00a0 GUESS WHAT?\u00a0 I won.\u00a0 Yeah the first round draft.\u00a0 On the second round KLT won.\u00a0 So now we are going to NASA to watch the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis.<\/p>\n
I am really excited to meet so many cool fellow tweeters that are going.\u00a0 There are 2 ROCKET SCIENTIST who graduated from Purdue.\u00a0 This will be amazing.<\/p>\n
So here is what the schedule looks like<\/p>\n
Schedule<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, May 11<\/strong><\/p>\n 3 pm — Tammy departs work and accomplishes the following: get dogs to vet for boarding, pack final clothing and toiletries, pack coolers, pack food and items for inside car, pack car, clean up & straighten house, lock all doors and windows and water the plants as needed.<\/p>\n ?\u00a0 until ? – DRIVE towards Florida, the more miles we do tonight the better.<\/p>\n Wednesday, May 12<\/strong><\/p>\n 6 am — the overnight stay and head for KSC!!\u00a0 With any luck we can get there in time to get our visitor pass.<\/p>\n Thursday, May 13\/L-1: Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n 8-9 a.m. — Registration at the Kennedy Space Center Press Accreditation Badging Building<\/p>\n 9-10 a.m. — Travel to the press site, set up, meet fellow participants<\/p>\n 10 a.m. — Welcome and introductions by @NASA<\/a> team members John Yembrick and Stephanie Schierholz<\/p>\n 10:10 a.m. — Robert D. Braun<\/a>, NASA chief technologist, NASA Headquarters<\/p>\n 10:30 a.m. Jon Cowart<\/a> (@Rocky_Sci<\/a>), Orbiter Engineering manager, Space Shuttle Program, KSC<\/p>\n 10:50 a.m. — Stephanie Stilson<\/a>, space shuttle Discovery processing director, Shuttle Processing Office, KSC<\/p>\n 11:10 a.m. — Astronaut Janice Voss <\/a><PURDUE GRAD!!<\/em><\/strong><\/span> 11:30 p.m.-12:15 p.m. — Break for lunch<\/p>\n 12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m. — Demonstration of the Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES<\/a>)<\/p>\n 1:20 p.m. — Instructions for launch day, board buses<\/p>\n 1:30-6:30 p.m. — Tour of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, including visits to the International Space Station Center and Apollo Saturn V Center. Your tour will drive by the Orbiter Processing Facility, Vehicle Assembly Building, Mobile Launcher Platforms and Crawler-Transporter. The last stop on the tour will be Launch Pad 39A to view retraction of the Rotating Service Structure, scheduled for 5:20 p.m. and space shuttle Atlantis. We will have a short break at the press site at about 4:30 p.m. If you need to leave, you may do so at that time. For the tour, you must wear long pants and closed, low-heeled shoes. Tank tops are not permitted<\/strong>.\u00a0 <- This means we are going into an OPERATIONAL Facility!!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Friday, May 14\/Launch: Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:30 a.m. — Arrive at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 Press Site.<\/p>\n 10 a.m. — Group picture beside the countdown clock.<\/p>\n 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. — Free time and visits from guest speakers, including<\/p>\n – Astronaut Dave Wolf<\/a> <-PURDUE GRAD!!\u00a0 I met him while working in Alumni Relations @ Purdue<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n – Lt. Col. Patrick Barrett, weather officer with the Air Force’s 45th Space Wing Weather Squadron<\/p>\n – Chris Meinert, STS-132 Closeout Crew member<\/p>\n – Madi Sengupta (@msengupta<\/a>), Space Station Robotics instructor at NASA’s Johnson Space Center<\/p>\n – Amiko Kauderer, @NASA_Johnson<\/a> team member leading STS-132 mission Tweetup<\/p>\n 2:20 p.m.<\/strong> — Launch of space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-132 mission\u00a0 <-Our view is from the press site!<\/em><\/span><\/strong> ~3:30 p.m. — Post-launch news conference on NASA TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well there is a lot of esplainin’ to do Lucy. I miss blogging, I hate my blog’s look, I don’t have time to figure out how to make it pretty and I can’t find someone to pay. So there you have the answer to the mystery of where I have been.<\/p>\n NOW here we go starting back out with a blog series just for this little trip to Florida. Let me tell you how it began. KLT mentioned that @nasa was doing a tweetup for the upcoming launch and that we should register, but they were only taking 150. He said we’d leave it in God’s hands. 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