Happy Anniversary...
Jul. 20th, 2004 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quasigeostrophy... to Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins!!
I think that someday I might like to go back to Huntsville to do the Advanced Adult Space Academy thing. I did the weekend/basic one a few years ago with my friend M (it was Toni's birthday present to me that year). In Advanced, participants get to do the scuba underwater microgravity simulation. :-)
The most fun part of the basic Adult Space Academy weekend, IMHO, was the Five Degrees of Freedom chair. You get a good feel for how hard it is to do simple tasks in zero-g. Your feet are about five feet off the ground, and the chair allows freedom of movement in five of the six directions, including rotationally. Try tightening a nut with a wrench while suspended like that! Sir Isaac was on the right track. ;-) I also learned that hearing the astronauts breathing isn't so much their spacesuit ventilation system as the work they're doing. :-)
I think that someday I might like to go back to Huntsville to do the Advanced Adult Space Academy thing. I did the weekend/basic one a few years ago with my friend M (it was Toni's birthday present to me that year). In Advanced, participants get to do the scuba underwater microgravity simulation. :-)
The most fun part of the basic Adult Space Academy weekend, IMHO, was the Five Degrees of Freedom chair. You get a good feel for how hard it is to do simple tasks in zero-g. Your feet are about five feet off the ground, and the chair allows freedom of movement in five of the six directions, including rotationally. Try tightening a nut with a wrench while suspended like that! Sir Isaac was on the right track. ;-) I also learned that hearing the astronauts breathing isn't so much their spacesuit ventilation system as the work they're doing. :-)
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Date: 2004-07-20 07:36 am (UTC)I might need to go to Spacecamp. I never got to go as a kid, but I have this dream about someday being able to see the earth from up in space, and wow, this might let me get kinda close.
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