Sunday, October 9, 2022

Meet the Staff and Volunteers from the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center's Second Decade 2000 - 2010 (Continued). Meet More Young Astronauts at The Space Place. The Imaginarium Theater.

Hello Space Center Fans,

This is the continuation of the series I started last week. I'm going through all my photos and posting the ones containing pictures of the staff and volunteers who worked at the Space Center during its second decade of operation (2000-2010). These are the greats, whose dedicated work kept the Space Center growing and prospering. These are the true believers in the Space Center's mission of "Creating A Space Faring Civilization One Student at a Time."

Josh Webb (green) and Scott Slaugh (red)

Josh was a Voyager Supervisor Extraordinaire. Scott was a young, student, hypercard programmer who played a major role in the simulator's operational controls.

Josh Webb sleeping on the job. You have to give him a break,

We'd just finished a grueling 27 hours of work (Friday field trips, Friday private missions, Friday overnight camp)

Josh, fully awake now, is back to work cleaning the Voyager's black plastic computer screen covers at the end of an overnight camp. We had to get the ship ready for the

11:30 A.M. Saturday private missions.

Stephen Porter is looking bored at the Voyager's IIFX station.

Behind him are two young volunteers waiting their turn to

go on the bridge to shake up the campers.

I sure wish I remembered the name of this Volunteer (playing the Voyager's ship's doctor). He's standing with the ship's security in the crew quarters.

There are a few staff and volunteers you may recognize in this early photo from 2002 - 2004. On the far left you have James Porter in the blue shirt. James is the current director of the Space Center. David Merrell is next to James in the green shirt at the table. I also see Randy Jepperson in this photo. Dustin Robison there in a black shirt. And the guy in green with this back to the camera is the great Stephen Porter.

It is about 11:30 P.M. on a Friday night. We just got the campers to bed and we've gathered in the Briefing Room to celebrate a staff birthday. That's the Odyssey's outer wall in the back. The far wall behind James held the staff bunks. That area was turned into the Phoenix a few years later.

That's Dustin Robison at the Voyager's IIFX station. Josh Babb is sitting in the Voyager's Flight Director chair (2004) That huge white computer between them controlled the Voyager's isoliner chip station on the Bridge.

I guess Josh isn't happy with Dustin's work. They're standing on the Voyager's Bridge.

Meet More Young Astronauts from The Space Place at Renaissance Academy, They Keep Coming and Coming and Coming....

Yes, there are more Young Astronauts you've not been introduced to. In fact, there are 207 Young Astronauts and Voyagers at Renaissance Academy, divided into squadrons of 7 - 10 members. The squadrons meets after school from 3:30 - 5:30 P.M. Monday - Thursday and 12:45 - 2:45 P.M. on Fridays (our school's early out day). We're spending the months of September and October brining them in for their first meetings and missions aboard the Starship Voyager. Here are last week's squadrons