Travels, Life In Albany, 2010

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Here is the exterior of the centripetal acceleration ride / exhibit as the group before us got out. Below are pictures from the interior which was not very well lit. As the ride spun faster, the 'sled' we were individually fastened in would slide up a foot or so (as you can see below), though Eric's did not. When it was spinning at full speed it was hard to lift your limbs, impossible for me to lift my head (but I am not sure that would have been a good idea in any case). The controller sat in the center and spun with us. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL. =0=
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In the main exhibition hall, they had a Star Wars exhibit, but it required a separate fee which we did not pay. There was also a pretty cool simulator of a run around Mars as shown above (purely fictional, of course). The was a Roland Missile launcher and a Hawk missile launcher (shown here). During the summer before I was a Junior at West Point (1973), I had a seven week assignment in Germany at an Air Defense Artillery (ADA) battery with Hawks about 20 kilometers outside of Bitburg Airbase. Cool! Roland was also and air defense missile (ground to air) which was jointly developed by the French and U.S.. When I wokred at HDL I worked on the fusing electronics for the Roland, but never actually saw one. Double cool! NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL. =0=
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They also had a prototype V2 as built by Germal scientists / engineers after WWII when they were brought back to the US (above) and a model of the lunar lander (here). Eric and I were filling a little disappointed by this space center until we found another big exhibit which was a Saturn V on its side. That was a big exhibit and made it all worthwhile. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL. =0=
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