Did a puzzle of a picture of a cat in space.
On Jan 9th stayed up to watch Artemis go up. The moon was full.
It was rather cloudy so all we saw was the dot of light.
Another rocket launch on Jan 13th
and another on the 18th
I never get tired of watching the rocket launches, but I miss quite a few. For our 20th anniversary we decided to go to the Kennedy Space Center. We haven't been there for at least 10 years.
We arrived about noon at the visitor center. The first thing we did was get on a bus to take a tour.
You can see this building miles away. It is the tallest single story building in the world.
We drove around the building learning many interesting things. The doors on the left are so big it takes them 45 minutes to be opened. If you touch the picture and enlarge it, at the bottom of the little white column are the doors for people to go in.
We then stopped at the Apollo building.
The control center for the flights. They showed a film about the race to the moon and then what it was like in this room when the first rocket with astronauts took off for the moon.
After that room we went into a long building. This gentlemen told us all about the Apollo rocket. This was a rocket that was built to be sent into space but the program stopped before it went up.
He explained all the different stages.
It is very long.
The little white cone in the front is where the astronauts were and what came back to earth.
We walked on the moon.
Larry touching a moon rock.
The lunar roving vehicle. It was taken to the moon on Apollo 15,16, and 17. This one is full scale, built for display purpose from surplus parts.
The tires were a metal mesh for the surface of the moon would have melted rubber tires.
One of the Apollo capsule that the recovered.
Alan Shepard Apollo 14 vehicular suit. It is covered in moon dust.
Alan Bean went to the moon and in 1997 he came back and painted this mural.
Our bus tour then returned us to the visitor center and we went to Atlantis bulding.
Today and the future.
Large enough to hold a crew of four along with cargo to the moon and eventually Mars.
Cargo Dragon was the first commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station on May 2012.
We left Kennedy space center and went to Titusville to Pier 220 for our anniversary meal.
A nice view from our table.
Roses for every year.
February 6 we watched another night launch from our back yard.
Again there was a full moon and the sky was clear.
