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Los Angeles (August 2015)

Trip to Los Angeles in August 2015. Visited the Queen Mary and the California Science Center along with Santa Monica, Hollywood and Six Flags Magic Mountain. $129 roundtrip on AA for this weekend

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Houston, TX

Weekend trip with J.R. Hehnly to Houston, TX during Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. We visited NASA, Galveston, and the USS Texas.

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Washington D.C.

Weekend trip to Washington D.C. in January 2015

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Orion Test Flight Launch

EFT-1 Launch of the Orion spacecraft on it’s first test flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. I was invited as part of the NASA Social group to attend this special launch!

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STS-135 Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch

I was invited to be apart of the NASA Tweetup for the final Space Shuttle Launch. Atlantis launched July 8, 2011 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. I was in house in the media area to witness this historic last launch.