The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air & Space Museum is an immense and organized hangar housing pieces of aeronautic history that send the mind reeling. Exactly how does something made entirely of metal and filled with people, or loaded with deadly weapons, float on air? How can anything fly at speeds beyond 2,000 mph all the while remaining undetected to radar? And most importantly, who were the fiscally creative individuals paying $12,000 a ticket to fly the Concord?
There were, of course, the more base inquiries as well. Do women astronauts wear makeup in space? (They may bring a NASA make-up bag if they wish.) How do the astronauts manage necessary body functions? (Using equally specialized bags.) And what does Diane like most in this exhibit case? ("I like the urine hose.")
Questions were answered and "museum back" was avoided. The cherry on top was a small metallic packet with a tiny brick of astronaut ice cream inside. Nothing like a little freeze-dried dairy to commemorate the amazing conquest of air and space.
No comments:
Post a Comment