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Originally Posted by freeinhou
Ok, you've done the tour. Next time, however, just bring them down to JSC and I'll give ya the insider tour! I can take 4 to 5 people in, just not when a shuttle's up. I'l take ya physically into the historical control room so you can sit at the actual flight director's console, and the viewing rooms of both the shuttle control room and the station control room. And a couple other training control rooms. And into a few shuttle simulators if there's no astronauts in there (there's usually a couple that are empty). How about the shuttle toilet trainer? My MIL loved that one. Oh, and the big swimming pool (neutral bouancy lab). Astronaut training vacuum chambers, etc... A Weekend is probably best - no interferences, but it don't matter.
It's simple. I meet you at the front gate and escort you on site. My car or yours, don't matter. I do it all the time. I just need a couple days notice to scrounge up some "escort required visitor badges"'.
Last people I took in was a girl I went to high school with and her hubby and daughter. They live in Phoenix and flew over just to do the tour with me (we went to high school in Michigan). We went by the shuttle control room and the folks were taking a break from a simulation and the flight director gave them a detailed description of what goes on in there - even posed with them for photos. So neat things can happen...
Just let me know, ok?
Sat weather go for launch - 40%
Sun weather go for launch - 60%
Mon weather go for launch - 70%
Tom
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I was going to ask you about a tour, but I knew we were just a few days out from a launch and didn't want to intrude on your preparations. Flight Director Lunney was my brother's roommate in college, so I was expecting him to call Bryan, but he didn't. Next time I will just take the bull by the horns myself...