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November 8, 2011

NASA Langley Director of Research Charles Harris

One of the engines exposed for its yearly inspection

Spacetweeps, intrigued.

Inside one of the research planes

Inside one of the research planes

Mike Obland, Airborne Science

Aircraft Instrumentation Laboratory

A bike! and N504NA

Ceiling crane for practicing docking procedures

Practicing docking

Bruce Fisher, Flight Services

Research planes

Research planes

Bruce Fisher giving the tweeps the Flight Services Overview

Across the hangar, an Orion mock-up!

Close-up of the Broncos

Capsule mock-up

Susan Kilrain, STS-83/94

Astronaut Susan (Still) Kilrain

Astronaut Susan (Still) Kilrain

Susan Kilrain, STS-83/94

STS-83/94 crew photo

Myself with Susan Kilrain

''Tweetup Luncheon'' on the Reid Conference Center marquee!

Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory

The Variable Density Tunnel (built 1922)

Tweeps getting back on the bus

Tweeps on the bus

Anybody else feel a sudden desire to play Jenga?

Entrance to the U.S. National Transonic Facility

A testing model of the space shuttle!

Pictures of wind tunnel tests

DSC_0368A bit over my head (both literally and academically)

The wind tunnel model shop

An airliner testing model

Do Not Grind Copper- Brass DANGER!!! !Aluminum!

An airliner testing model

Facility manager Roman Paryz explaining

DO NOT ENTER this cabinet. (You would be very uncomfortable)

Outside the wind tunnel

Wind tunnel control room

Part of the wind tunnel

Part of the wind tunnel

That is one giant pipe.

Tweeps learning about the wind tunnel

Wonder what made those marks?!

Wish I knew what this drawing is!

Liquid Nitrogen demonstration time!

Roman Paryz holding a partially inflated baloon with tongs.

Dipping the balloon in liquid nitrogen

Shrinky balloon!

Slowly reinflating

After a minute, the balloon's back to room temperature and normal size!

Frozen leaf is fragile.

Cupful of liquid nitrogen

Pouring some liquid nitrogen on the ground to show us how it sort of skitters across the floor, not seeming to touch it!

Pouring out the liquid nitrogen to reveal what else is in the cup...

Cheez-Itz! Now very very cold Cheez-Itz

''Anything else you want to see frozen?'' ... :D

[Very] Frozen sock!

Liquid Nitrogen'd sock!

Roman Paryz and my frozen sock and I

James H. Starnes Jr. Structures & Materials Laboratory

Structures & Materials Laboratory

Workspaces with an interesting view

Tweeps in front of a lunar habitat demo

We're not alone!

Mary Beth Wusk and Amanda Cutright explaining the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE 3)

Amanda Cutright explaining the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE 3)

Mary Beth Wusk explaining the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE 3)

Tweeps learning about the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE 3)

Vision for the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) Mission

Video demo and scale model of the Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE 3)

Mary Beth Wusk and Amanda Cutright and AstroSnoopy with the IRVE-3

Nanomaterials Based Superstructures info

Lunar habitat sign

Inflatable Lunar Habitat

Signage on the outside wall of the Inflatable Lunar Habitat

The Inflatable Lunar Habitat's airlock

The ceiling of the Inflatable Lunar Habitat

Karen Whitley telling us about the Inflatable Lunar Habitat in front of its inner airlock door

Someday, the view out that window will be the moon! Very close up.

I'm in a lunar habitat model and really excited about it!

I'm in a moon house!

Exiting the Inflatable Lunar Habitat

Imagining if it were actually on the moon. :)

The Laser is Off (No Goggles Required)

Back on the bus

Photo of the Landing Impact Research/Hydro Impact Basin Facility, before the basin.

Crash test dummies!

Structural Dynamics Engineer, Martin Annett

Structural Dynamics Engineer, Martin Annett

TweetUp Cupcakes!

Tweeps in the LandIR/HIB facility garage, awaiting the Orion test

Second-hand helicopter used for impact testing

Landing Impact Research/Hydro Impact Basin Facility's enormous gantry

Engineers, Astronauts, media, VIPs, and SpaceTweeps gather for the Orion drop test!

LandIR/HIB Gantry

with STS-123 & 129 Astronaut Mike Foreman!

The Hydro Impact Basin

Orion model being pulled back in preparation for the drop test

Orion model full of sensors to measure the drop and impact

NASA LaRC LANDING AND IMPACT RESEARCH FACILITY

Orion Drop Test - Ready...

Orion Drop Test - Swinging

Orion Drop Test - Swinging

Orion Drop Test - Swinging

Orion Drop Test - Swinging

Orion Drop Test - Swinging

Orion Drop Test - Swinging

Orion Drop Test - Swinging

Orion Drop Test - Swinging

Orion Drop Test - Swinging

Orion Drop Test - Released!

Orion Drop Test - Splashdown!

Orion Drop Test - Splash

Orion Drop Test - Splash

Orion Drop Test - Splash

Orion Drop Test - Splash

Orion Drop Test - Splash

Orion Drop Test - Tipping

Orion Drop Test - Tipping

Orion Drop Test - Flipping

Orion Drop Test - Flipping

Orion Drop Test - Flipped

Orion Drop Test - Flipped

Orion Drop Test - Flipped

$Orion Drop Test - \$

Orion Drop Test - Displacement

Orion Drop Test - Getting ready to flip her back upside-up

Orion Drop Test - Flipping her back upside-up. With a crane.

Orion Drop Test - Flipping her back upside-up.

Orion Drop Test - Flipping her back upside-up.

Orion Drop Test - Back upside-up

Giant swingset?

Tanks in the garage

CAUTION | PLEASE ENTER WITH CAUTION | PYRO WORK IN PROGRESS | DONot CROSS CAUTION TAPE

POST OPERATIONS

One of our lovely hosts, Kathy Barnstorff, being interviewed!

The Gantry and I

Follow the Twitterbird!

Wrap-up back in the cafeteria

Signing the Twitterbird!

One of the F-16s that was flitting about all afternoon :)

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lauren

Skitterbrained 20something with lots of words and no inspiration. Always online, usually caffeinated, occasionally articulate, rarely doing what I meant to be working on. Fond of The Puppy, fiction (via any medium), space, yarn-based crafts, and a finite selection of humans.

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