Obscura Day 2012

The Space Museum celebrated Obscura Day 2012 by hosting a Founder's Tour with Earl Mullins and an astronaut inspired lunch with Lowell Grissom. Lowell is Gus Grissom's brother, one of our first seven astronauts, and he shares stories of Gus and information about the Apollo 1 Foundation. Gus told his family that he felt the Apollo capsule was inferior and, unfortunatlely, he turned out to be correct when the Apollo 1 fire killed the three astronauts on board. The Apollo capsule was re-designed and re-built for future successful Apollo flights.

On a happier note, our spacey lunch included an astronaut favorite - shrimp and cocktail sauce with lots of horseradish - as well as healthy trail mix & Gogurt and Tang. Instead of tortilla wrapped sandwiches we had calzones since Mario's restaurant is an Italian grill.

Earl shared some of the most important artifacts in The Space Museum collection and archives, including a lunar collection bag with Moon dust, a flag flown on STS1, and a VERY heavy meteorite. I am attaching my favorite artifact of the day - an adorable vintage ducky from the 60's - notice it's cute little "tablet."

Hmmm, I can't upload a picture - possibly because I am using an iPad. Well, I will do some research and share the photo another day. I have an idea...upload to facebook first...

Counting down the days until my trip to the Space Coast. :)