Cape Canaveral

A visit 4/27/2017

Don and Jeanie
Looks big here, but it is tiny compared to the shuttle.
Early rockets.
Capsule for three, but this toddler just fits!
Don and Jeanie tried it out.
Don trying out the early rocket.
Our guide, an astronaut Scott Parazynski !
 6-foot-2 Scott Parazynski is just over the Russian space agency’s height requirement, so he was our guide.
A breakdown of a Saturn 5 rocket.
The oxygen/hydrogen fuel tank (orange) and the ammonium perchlorate (AP) and powdered aluminium booster rockets.
Sensor wires attached to the fuel tank to measure stresses.
The shuttle was so much bigger in person, it is huge!

On February 1, 2003 the shuttle Columbia broke up on descent. My cousin Captain David Brown ,46, was among those lost.

David Brown