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Today's Question:
What was More Entertaining at the Orem Family Festival Parade,  the Discovery Space Center's Floatlite or the Discovery Space Center Staff? , 

Spectators viewing the Orem Family Festival's Saturday evening parade left the celebration debating what was more entertaining, the Discovery Space Center floatlite or the Discovery Space Center Staff. 

Once again the Discovery Space Center took the good news of  Space Center to the people in an old time parade revival.  A message of deliverance from summer boredom was preached and leaflets distributed to those gathered roadside.  

"Are YOU looking for summer SALVATION?" Brother BJ shouted from atop the shuttle. "Are YOU happy with the DIRECTION your summer is going?"

"Tell us what to do!" a woman with a gaggle of unruly children shouted from the curb, the youngest strained on his toddlerleash.  

"The Discovery Space Center offers SANCTUARY to lost and bored," Skyler exhorted.  " Join us and find THE WAY!"

"Hallelujah!" another woman exclaimed while taking several flyers from one of the passing staff.  "How much just to leave them in orbit?"  

Watch for the Discovery Space Center's travelling summer revival coming to a parade hear you. 

The Discovery Space Center Revival Team.  Brother Skyler is Calling You Forward.

Brother Brandon (in preacher white) Joins the call for summer salvation

The DSC Mobile Fighter

Brother Brandon and Deacon Conner Survey the congregation

Those already saved from summer boredom.  Will you join them?  

          
Space News:  50 Years Ago
By Mark Daymont
From his blog: Spacerubble

"On June 16, 1963 the Soviet Union became the first country to send a woman pilot into orbit. Valentina Tereshkova also became the first civilian in space. Once again the Soviets raced ahead in the Cold War Space Race of the 1960's."  Read More

"Fifty Years ago, the Soviet Union launched Vostok 5 on a mission that would attempt a rendezvous with another Soviet spacecraft, putting America farther back in the Cold War Space Race."

Update on the Current Chinese Shenzhou Mission

The cosmonaut in the picture is Valery Bykovsky.

"Three space programs worked to make two important dockings with two different stations in orbit of the Earth. The Chinese Space Agency has docked Shenzhou 10 to Tiangong 1, and the European Apace Agency has worked with Russian Space and NASA to dock the ATV-4 to the ISS."

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The Imaginarium
Finding the ordinary and transmorphing it into something extraordinary

This store wants you to come back. Creativity A 

Step 2:  Take over the world.

Your brain on drugs

The revolution has started

Smart Cars are for poor parallel parkers.

Slightly past its sell by date

An Honest Store

Found inside a book at the bookstore

If fear has a face

Cardboard maze: a summer project.

Three New Cadet Volunteers (Mug Shots and All). More on the Chinese Space Mission. The Imaginarium. This is a Great Place to Spend Your Friday Evening.

Hello Troops,
Today we welcome three new Farpoint Cadets to our growing list of cadets who've finished their mission observations and may now volunteer at the DSC and / or CMSEC.  They are now officially part of the Black Shirt Fellowship.  Approach with caution, they are considered armed with extreme wit and overwhelming confidence.

Ethan, sitting in the Phoenix Control Room for his first volunteer mission

Sam standing near the Atlantis entrance at the Discovery Center.

Aaron standing outside the Discovery Space Center

Are you interested in becoming a Farpoint Cadet?  Are you interested in volunteering at the Discovery Space Center and/or the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center?  Do you want to join a space and science fiction club for grades 5 to 12?   If so, then Farpoint is the place for you.  Visit our web site to find out how you may get involved.  FarpointStation.org

Mr. Williamson

Space and Science News

Shenzhou 10 Launch Attempts China's Longest Mission Yet

Shenzhou 10 on Long March 2F rocket roars into a perfect sky. All images credit: CMSEC and Xinhua.

China has set herself on an ambitious schedule of missions. On this, only the fifth manned space mission, Chinese astronauts (sometimes called taikonauts) are attempting a 15-day mission to the Tiangong space module in orbit around the Earth. Unlike ISS, the Tiangong 1 is not permanently manned. It is being used as a temporary way station on a scheduled path for China to build their own space station by the year 2020. The first manned mission to Tiangong 1 was last year. Each mission brings China closer to their stated goals, eventually to reach the Moon.

Artist concept of docking Shenzhou10 (right) with Tiangong 1 (left). Notice the similarity between Shenzhou 10 and a Russian Soyuz space craft.

Overview of Soyuz spacecraft. Although the orbital module has a different shape than the Soyuz's, the Chinese craft was developed from the Russian design. Credit: Space.com.

China has gone from first manned launch to second docking with a space station in just five missions. Their planning has been careful and ambitious. But it shows that countries entering the manned space age on their own no longer need to go through the long and difficult process of scientific progression on their own. America and Russia paid for that discovery during the last 50 years. China just showed other countries that you can buy the technology (as they did from Russia, although some advanced navigational technology was taken from American sources) and develop your own space program. Soon, once the US commercial companies like SpaceX and Boeing complete their own manned rockets to the ISS, a country will merely need to buy a complete rocket and capsule set. Currently, other countries will still need to develop their own space infrastructure (launch bases) of their own of use a previous existing one. However, I believe that we will soon see space construction companies contract out to build launch facilities for other countries.

Shenzhou 10 astronaut (l-r): Wang Yaping, Zhang Xiaoguang, and Nie Haisheng. 

The Shenzhou 10 mission improves upon the last visit to the station. In addition to bringing supplies, the crew will install a new waste processing facility (think about that- no doubt a welcome addition), the crew will enjoy a greater variety of food for their meals, and an educational lesson will be televised to the students of China. They will practice docking maneuvers, and generally set the stage for the next Chinese manned flight.

By Mark Daymont
Farpoint Educator

The Imaginarium
Make the ordinary, extraordinary.  Confuse the establishment, they're old and past it anyway :)

Creativity: A
You're well past your sell by date if you don't agree!

A different take on "Angry Birds"

I'd enjoy sitting in on this conversation.

What a senior prank.

An old Nintendo ad from the 1990's
Creativity: A

The Concessions Stand at the Quidditch Stadium

Wedding Crashers

Any Reason is a Good Reason to Have Ice Cream

What a trick to play on house guests