Very early morning and a long drive to Edwards AFB, to attend the NASA Armstrong Social Media event. I later learned that over 300 people had applied for this Social Media event and around 35 attended, but some of them were media who did not attend all of the same tours that we did.
Today’s Agenda:
8:15am – Welcome by Kate Squires, Social Media Manager
8:30 – Introductions and welcome from the very nice NASA people. Icebreaker activities (tweeting contest to get a spot on the Parachute simulator, I could not get connected to the internet, so my tweet never went out)
9:45am- Center Tour
-Life Support and Parachute simulator
-Experimental Fabrication Shop
-Model Shop
-Hanger 4801 and 4802
12:45 Lunch
Welcome Address by Center Director David McBride and NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Lightfoot
2pm NASA Pilots Panel Hernan Posada, Tom Miller, Manny Antimisiaris, and Scott Howe and autographs after (I asked a question on the importance of GA in their lives and if they had their private pilots license)
Giftshop
3pm Tom Rigney talking about the Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) flap
Hanger 4840 to see the G-III and the Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) flexible wing flap; and the Ikhana drone
Mission Control – the Blue Room
4:45 End of the Day
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- On the road to Edwards AFB
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- My badge!
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- Kate Squires
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- Building used in ‘I Dream of Jeannie’
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- The X1, the 2nd aircraft to break the sound barrier
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- Life Support
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- Life Support
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- Ejection suit
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- Ejection suit
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- Parachute simulator
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- Parachute simulator
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- Parachute simulator
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- Experimental Fabrication Shop
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- Armstrong Center Director David McBride
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- Deputy Administrator Robert Lightfoot
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- NASA pilots Hernan Posada, Tom Miller, Manny Antimisiaris, and Scott Howe
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- Dryden
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- Blue room @ Mission Control at Armstrong
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- Red phone!
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- Blue room, Mission Control at Armstrong
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- G-III
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- Ikhana means Intelligence
