We have and will be traveling a lot this summer. This list is about my trip to Wichita State University for a NOvA Collaboration Meeting. For the photographs at the Cosmosphere, I sometimes couldn’t get far enough away from the object to capture it all in the frame.
- Effective medicine for an illness I developed on this trip.
- Safe and punctual flights to Wichita
- My wife giving me rides to and from the airport in Rapid City
- Rides to and from the airport in Wichita
- My former boss giving a very nice performance on the saxophone at the collaboration dinner.
- Good food, drinks, and conversation at the dinner
- Fascinating colloquium on antimatter and gravity after the collaboration meeting
- My student was able to make valuable connections at the meeting
- Safe drive to the Cosmosphere, where I saw…
- … the Apollo 13 command module
- … a restored V-2 rocket
- … a restored V-1 rocket
- … Sergei Korolev and Wernher von Braun’s slide rules
- … a genuine Vostok space capsule
- … a window from the Space Shuttle Columbia (removed before the disaster)
- … a SR-71 Blackbird
- … a copy of Pravda reporting on Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight. He was the first person in space.
- … Soviet and American space suits.
- … a full scale model of a rocket from the Gemini program.
- I also learned quite a bit about the V-1 and V-2 rockets.
- Despite a delayed flight out of Wichita, I had enough time to make my connection in Denver and arrived safely and on-time back home in Rapid City.
- My wife drove me home from the Rapid City airport.
