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FREE WEEKEND
Sep. 14th, 2014 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
number1_kerbal[Hey kids, it's the second weekend in September! Do you know what that means? That means that for all students and seniors, this Saturday and Sunday, admittance to the Venture Spaceport is absolutely free! Come take a guided tour given by one of the astronauts or administrators, take a seat in a genuine authentic training mock-up of a space capsule, and maybe even look at the new rockets under construction, and the models of the plans for even bigger ones.
Of course, the whole complex is open to the rest of the public as well for a nominal fee, as is the on-site MUSEUM OF SPACE, which isn't affiliated with the big museum downtown but instead just contains a lot of space things on loan from other institutions. There's even a Boilerplate Apollo capsule and a real soyuez that carried a famous Canadian astronaut back to earth recently.
And the man of the enterprise? Oh, he's Everywhere today. He's in the astronaut 0-g training pool. He's in the vehicle assembly building. He's on the Vomit comet (Tickets are an extra 150 dollars, to experience 5 30 second bursts of real weightlessness.) And he's always got a big grin and seems pleased to see you, no matter who you are.]
Of course, the whole complex is open to the rest of the public as well for a nominal fee, as is the on-site MUSEUM OF SPACE, which isn't affiliated with the big museum downtown but instead just contains a lot of space things on loan from other institutions. There's even a Boilerplate Apollo capsule and a real soyuez that carried a famous Canadian astronaut back to earth recently.
And the man of the enterprise? Oh, he's Everywhere today. He's in the astronaut 0-g training pool. He's in the vehicle assembly building. He's on the Vomit comet (Tickets are an extra 150 dollars, to experience 5 30 second bursts of real weightlessness.) And he's always got a big grin and seems pleased to see you, no matter who you are.]
