Naomi and Kathy

My granddaughter and my daughter in the cafeteria of the Griffith Observatory.

The Hollywood sign

Seen from the lawn of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.

Formal Portrait of my Graddaughter, Naomi

She's three and a half years old in this photo.

My cancer update

Just a report, no photos. I had my regularly scheduled scan last week as a follow up for my lung cancer. The scan was unremarkable. I love the term, unremarkable, when it comes to follow up cancer scans. My oncologist says I don't need another visit with him for a year.

Henry

Los Angeles Science Museum with Chris and Naomi

Chris, my son-in-law, and Naomi, my granddaughter, looking at an exhibit in the air and space building at the California Science Museum in Los Angeles.

Naomi looking at another exhibit.

Naomi trying on her 3D glasses prior to going in to the IMAX theater to see Hubble 3D.

New Lunar Rover

My cousin David was at the Houston Space Center a few months ago. He was on a bus tour and, coincidentally, the guide saw that someone was testing the new Lunar Rover. He stopped the bus so the people could get a close look at the rover. David sent me some pictures of it. This is what the typical lunar astronaut will be driving when people return to the moon.

Johnson Space Center

The young lady appearing with me in this photo, Sandy, was, literally, the girl next door when I was in my junior and senior years in college. She invited me to visit her and her family on my trip west, and we went to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for a tour. They didn't suit us up for this photo. It's a photoshop image.

This giant swimming pool with mockups of the International Space Station in the water is the neutral buoyancy lab where the astronauts practice doing the jobs they'll have to do in space. They spend lots of time here, and there are scuba divers always present, four divers to each astronaut, to rescue the astronauts if they get into trouble while under water. The control rooms in the upper left of the photo are mockups of the control rooms the astronauts talk to while in space.

This is the real control room for the International Space Station.

This is a real time image that came down from a video camera on the outside of the International Space Station while our tour group was watching from the peanut gallery.

This is the control room where they did the Apollo missions. When they made the movie, Apollo 13, they took lots of photos of this room so they could make their control room set look like this. Unfortunately, there were some plaques about Space Shuttle Missions on the wall, and the movie people duplicated those on the Apollo 13 set even though there was no space shuttle at the time of the Apollo 13 mission.