Welcome to the Hotel California…
Hello from downtown Sunnyvale, CA
Hanging out with Rob and his tribe in Silicon Valley (or pretty close to it).
I’m having a tourist experience here. Yesterday we went to the NASA Ames research museum. They had all sorts of good stuff there. The best being a real live Mercury spacecraft on display. This one was an early unmanned version, but they used them for manned missions later on the program. These things are nothing but tin cans! Seriously! There are no hatches, the astronauts were bolted into the thing! Next to the tin can (err, sorry, “spacecraft”) were a couple of space suits. The ones use for the Mercury missions came complete with silver spray-painted Doc Martens as well. Another suit was supposedly used for the Gemini missions where the astronauts did a spacewalk! They must be making this stuff up! There’s no way anyone would wear this get-up in the vacuum of space, surely? They orbited the Earth in this stuff??!!?!?!??