so as a few of you know, i am a community college electrical engineering loser, but it gives good opportunities. I enrolled in a online NASA class, and if you got an average of 95% or higher, they would select you for an 3 day onsite activity at JSC working with NASA engineers for a cute lil' fake activity. more info here
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/descriptions/National_Community_College_Aerospace_Scholars.html
The activity itself, I hated, to be 100% honest, I hate nearly every engineering student I've met. The only ones I liked were the guys being paid by work to finish their degree. But our mentor is a propulsions engineer for NASA, so that was fun to pick at her brain.
Anyways, because of this, I got to take a VIP tour, some stuff normal people see, other stuff they don't. The coolest part was getting to sit in Apollo mission control, we also got to listen to a speech from Apollo's flight director (the guy that wears the vests) that was amazing.
anyways, pics
IRL mission control, where STS-132 is being operated from, that was cool.
Apollo control, note, all the nerds
But all in all, sitting at Apollo mission control was one of the coolest things I've ever done, getting a picture taken with Eugene Kranz was the second coolest
/cool story
ps if pics dont work, please kill me
