Long Weekend - Day Two - Photos

1)

A beautiful morning to start the tram tour

2)

Apparently, even the "President of the United States of America" cannot override the "Flight Director" during a mission. Cool!

3)

Old Mission Control Center, monitoring ISS 24/7.

The plaques on the left wall are from successful missions, and the ones on the right wall near the door are from failed and yet-to-be-launched ones.

The three projections show, from left to right - some technical details of ISS - orbit and current position of ISS (Over the International Date Line at the time of our visit) - live video feed from ISS.

We got to watch the sunrise over the Pacific - big deal, the astronauts get to watch it 16 times in a day =))

4)

A replica of ISS in Building 9, training ground for astronauts.

5)

A replica of the Canadian Arm, used to perform heavy duty work in space aboard ISS.

6)

Wierd treadmill setup for the astronauts to get used to walking in zero gravity.

7)

Mars rover, and apparently that really is Au all over it.

8)

F1 engines (Primary Stage) of Saturn V rocket

9)

Another view of the same engine.

10)

Ashamed of myself, to be not able to cover it in one shot.

11)

Just cannot get enough of it!

12)

OK, one last time.

13)

A J-2 Engine (Second Stage)

14)

Just look at those horns! The cattle raised here are part of some project by students majoring in Animal Husbandry.

15)

Back to engines! I am not sure where this goes though.

16)

Complete model of the ISS

17)

Some Space Science Competition Award, looks pretty cool.

18)

More engines! This time it is a space shutte's engine.

19)

Some stuff designed for astronauts in space which reminds me of that joke where Americans designed a hi-tech anti-gravity pen - Russians used a pencil. ROFL!

20)

Replica of the camera used on the "Moon"

The End.