hand-jiving

This past weekend, some friends and I went to see the musical, Grease. Most of us dressed up for the occasion. None of the girls had Pink Lady jackets or poodle skirts, so we improvised. My friend, the Grease fanatic, cut pink poodles out of felt and we ladies applied them to our skirts with double-sided tape. I wore my pink cardigan and tied a scarf to my ponytail. Voila!

I didn't know Grease was a musical before it was a movie. I thought the performance was fantastic, but the movie has so much more that they couldn't include in the musical. I also didn't know that Taylor Hicks was going to play Teen Angel. The crowd went wild. However, I found it awkward and self-promoting when Taylor performed a song from his CD after the show and they announced that his CDs would be sold in the lobby. Still, it was cool to see him up close when he was signing autographs.

space

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Open House, May 2-3, 2009


full-scale model of mars science laboratory rover scheduled to launch in fall, 2011








spacecraft assembly facility "clean room"

the yellow tape is an insulator and keeps the lab free of FOD (foreign object debris)







spacecraft fabrication facility












quality assurance. they use autoCAD to make sure all parts, like this rover tire, are ready to go. QA is tough. that's why the MSL project was delayed 2 years