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| Magellan Mission Control Staff for Launch Day of the Magellan II Nicole VandenBos, Audrey Henriksen, Lissa Hadfield, and volunteers. |
Villains beware, the Magellan has returned and no asteroid field, nebula, or other hiding local will keep you safe for long.
Congrats again to our awesome staff and volunteers who work so hard to get each of our ships up and running. Our Saturday's have been booked out for weeks even as we add more simulators to the fleet. It is no small feat and they do it all with a smile on their faces.
Here are the Magellan II's first crews.
A Tribute to the First Magellan and All Its Glory (You gotta love those strawberry iMacs)
A tribute to the first Magellan. It's last flight before the 2005 remodel.
The Magellan opened in 1999. Notice the IMacs were all the same color - raspberry. That uniform color took a day's work. The original Magellan computers arrived at Central School in different colors. We had raspberry, lime, tangerine, and blueberry. What a disaster for the bridge. What would people think walking into the Magellan and seeing a smorgasbord of computer colors? Mr. Adams, Central's principal, and I loaded up the lime, tangerine, and blueberry computers into the back of his pickup and drove to most of the district's elementary schools asking if we could swap our computers for their raspberry computers. The principals were very obliging. We had our raspberry bridge.
Of course, what we didn't know was that the computers were assigned to schools and their serial numbers recorded on the district's database. Dan Adams and I really messed up - causing the good folks at technology several hours of re entering serial numbers. We asked for forgiveness but were not willing to take the computers back! With the article I'm including a few historical photos. Below are the last pictures taken of the original Magellan before the redesign and construction of the Magellan you know today. These pictures were taken on the evening of November 26, 2005.
This was the final private mission staff. The Magellan closed that night so construction of the new Magellan could start on November 27th. I don't know everyone's names, but this is what I know. Left to right standing top: ?, Megan Warner, Sam Brady, ? , BJ Warner.
Front row: Warren Nuila, Metta Smith, Steven Bristow, and Josh Babb. Josh was the Flight Director, Metta was second chair. The rest wanted to be there for the final goodbye to a wonderful set.
Front row: Warren Nuila, Metta Smith, Steven Bristow, and Josh Babb. Josh was the Flight Director, Metta was second chair. The rest wanted to be there for the final goodbye to a wonderful set.
Josh Babb in the Magellan's Flight Director position. Notice in those days the flight directors sat facing second chair.
Steven Bristow and Warren Nuila folding the Magellan's uniforms at the end of the last mission.
The last picture. What a team. What great memories. Megan's face sums it up..... Does anyone know who the two young volunteers were?
The remodelled Magellan opened in the spring of 2006 and closed permanently for demolition in May 2020.
The Magellan has always had a history of great story telling. That tradition will continue with the new Magellan.
Welcome to the fleet of Space EdVentures simulators Magellan II.
Mr. Williamson
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