We also learned how to solve problems by breaking things into problem statements (11/?) https://t.co/o9v4b2vZ2r
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Most meaningful to me was the Apple IIe powered lunar lander sim I needed to operate. I learned how to actually land using NASA tables of altitude and thrust. (10/?) https://t.co/du4DFz3i42
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We had to learn the parts of the shuttle in French, and how to cellestial navigate in 3D space (9/?) https://t.co/A7PcWwpetK
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Part 2 In 1988 (8th grade) my school was picked by the Challenger Foundation to participate in a project called ET: Exploring Together where we would do a mock spaceflight fully in the foreign language we chose in 8th grade.
(8/?) https://t.co/VRs5SqbH1R
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My pic of the crew of Mission 51L, the Challenger.
(7/?) https://t.co/OuuB3VRUeD
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the Challenger happened in winter of that next year and space travel and in some ways to me, the future, ground to a halt. (6/?)
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That crew was not the Challenger crew. I remember them being really nice and their jump suits were so cool. (Really 5/?)
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On the same trip, we went to Cape Canaveral and saw the shuttle Discovery launch. We sat next to the crew of the next flight scheduled, the shuttle Challenger.
Here is the mission patch on the flight suit my mom made me for Halloween 1985. (5/?) https://t.co/N2zCkM7Urb
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If you know me, I’m sure you’ve heard me talk of my love of EPCOT. The promise of multiple cultures working together to make the world planted some seed in me that this was the future.
This the souvenir I still have from that trip. https://t.co/NdTL0HXYaY
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In the summer of 1985 after the worst school year of my life and before the best elementary school year (thx @BoomerGooner49), we went to Disney World (2/?)
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