November has been a busy month, and a big hilight was having the Cam & Coralie Koch family visit us.  (By way of explanation, Coralie is my younger sister, Cam is her husband, and they have four children Ellie, Kayli, Kiersten, and Ethan who are good friends and cousins).  They spent a week at our place in early November 2014, and we were able to spend two Saturdays together on outings in the Houston area .

On the first Saturday together, we spent the day at Space Center Houston, the tourist part of the Johnson Space Center.  I have a lot of pictures that I will post (likely spread over 5 blog posts).  Rather than a lot of words of explanation, I am going to attempt to use the Gallery format, and embed a lot of the stories into the “Description” field of each picture. OK (says Ben about a week later – that is not going to work – so it is going to look like a traditional post with inserted pictures). On to Space Center Houston.

Upon arriving at Space Center Houston, the first thing that you see is this large, real Boeing 747 carrying a real Space Shuttle. The technical NASA term for the aircraft is the SCA – Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. It (and a sibling) were used to take the Space Shuttles from wherever they landed (typically at an Air Force base in California, although I could be mistaken) back to Florida for the next mission.

Picture of 747 and space shuttle
Space Shuttle and SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft)

And a bit later (on the tram tour which you will hear more about in future posts) we had this view of the Shuttle and the SCA.
Picture of Space Shuttle and SCA
Back view of Shuttle and SCA

The next picture taken in the parking lot was this great picture of Heidi. It was pretty cold that day, so she is sort of bundled up and is possibly shivering.
Picture of Heidi Huber
Heidi

The rest of this first SCH post is just going to be some of the random people pictures (random pictures of people you know rather than pictures of random people – although upon review, there are random people in the background of some of the photos). Most of these were taken waiting in line for a specific theater showing of current happenings in space.
Here is Heidi and Kiersten, good friends.
Picture of Kiersten Koch and Heidi Huber
Kiersten and Heidi waiting in line

Next up are some pictures of Lori, Danaya, and Daelynn.
Picture of Lori and Danaya waiting in line
Lori and Danaya

Picture of Daelynn and Danaya
Matching sweaters again

Picture of Daelynn, Lori, and Danaya Huber
Daelynn, Mom and Danaya waiting patiently

And last up are some pictures of Brock, those are always a hit (with us anyway), and we always end up with quite a bunch of them. He’ll be growing up quickly, so enjoy them while you can.
Picture of Brock Huber
Brock with a smirk

Picture of Brock reading display
Brock reading about the F1 rocket

Picture of Brock in the elevator
Brock in the elevator

And that’s it for this post. The next posts will have a little more detail about the rest of the Space Center Houston visit.

Ben

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