Cynthia practicing her song before the ceremony:
A rehearsal pic I forgot to put in the previous post:
The wedding day! Saturday, June 13th:
After the ceremony they took off for Maui and we drove to the exotic town of Pearland, Texas. We rented a house there with my folks and stayed for a little while.
Before heading back to Iowa, we spent a good part of a day at NASA. We should've spent a whole day there because there was so much to see and do, but we had a blast checking out the Saturn V rocket, mission control (yeah, the REAL mission control where they talk to the astronauts on the International Space Station), walking through the displays with the Apollo capsules and walking through a space shuttle. The first thing you see when you arrive is the shuttle mounted on the top of the modified Boeing 747 that was used to transport it back from its landing area,
First we got on the tram to take a tour of the NASA campus and visit the mission control building:
A couple of older rockets:
This is a Saturn V rocket! It still remains the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever built and they were flown from 1966 to 1973. NASA built 13 of them to send astronauts up in the Apollo space capsules. The rocket is displayed in sections and you can walk in between the sections and see inside. They built the building over the rocket after setting it in place.
A glove from a Soviet astronaut that was given as a gift to NASA:
The inside of a training capsule:
The astronaut gallery was an impressive display and it made us feel as if we were walking through outer space:
Emily built an extraterrestrial!
OK, enough fun, time to go home...
