Sign Here...

I have a short detour from the planned stop this week, but I think it's pretty cool. For every shuttle that goes up a large banner is made that the employess sign or write messages on to show their support for the mission. Sometimes they're carried in front of the orbiter when it rolls from the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) or hung on the Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) when it rolls from the VAB to the Pad. I have also seen them hanging where the astronauts walk out on launch day.

This week was the first time I have ever walked into a building and found the banner there for people to sign.

Yes, I did put my name on it. More importantly, I put Myca's on there too:


This week's planned stop was Kennedy Space Center's annual All-American Picnic. This is an event we do every spring where everybody on the space center can bring their families for a day of music, games, demonstrations and food. This year my group was responsible for planning the whole thing and they gave me the best job out there: Astronaut support.

Our base for the day was the back part of what we called the "Virtual Astronaut Trailer".

People visiting the picnic could go in the front of the trailer and play with a computer game where you got to be an astronaut walking or driving around Mars.


When we weren't at the base we were managing things over at the astronaut autograph tent.


The Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center (JSC) sent me three wonderful people to support this event. I introduced all of them to Myca, and at the end of their visit they even let me take her picture with them.

Thanks this week to go Eric , Megan and Janice for making the trip to come to the picnic and being so great to work with. It was a fun event to be part of and we had a great time with them.