#space mirror

Photos from Kennedy Space Center last week, finally! It rained a little bit but it was sooooo fun (even better than Disney two days later :’)). More photos and stuff below the cut!

It was so neat seeing Gus’ Mercury suit (he’s so compact!! my love!) and all their personal things like Wally’s jacket and Deke’s knife and John Young’s kneeboard. And there’s a big life-sized version of that photo of the Mercury Seven by the F-106,, yes I took a photo with each of them:

The tour to the Saturn V Center was awesome (the VAB is huge?? like HUGE?) and the Apollo 1 exhibit there was beyond great. I love the pictures and personal items they had for each of them, like Gus’ cozy hunting gear and Ed’s track shoes and Rog’s Eagle Scout uniform and cookbook :’) We were there kinda early and I’m glad it was mostly empty. I knew I’d be emotional but seeing the hatch was just… really, really intense and hard. I took some photos and I haven’t looked at them that much because it’s rough,, but I took this one with the photo of Gus I carry around with me everywhere:

As sad as it was, it was also really neat to hear people talking about them. Little kids learning about them, older people remembering what it was like, idk I’m so used to people in my everyday life not even knowing who they are that it was a real welcome change to see them treated like supermen. “A hero remembered never dies.”

The rest of KSC was so fun; seeing Atlantis was AWESOME and climbing through the little ISS (meant for kids asldfkdlfskjsd) and all the engines and boosters and telescope models, I already can’t wait to go back 😭 Like the Apollo 1 exhibit, the shuttle disaster memorials were really really nice. It was nice to see what their families chose to display for each of them, like Rick’s bible and cowboy boots and KC’s favorite book and Greg’s biking trophy. I didn’t know they had pieces of each shuttle on display, that kind of caught me off guard. The Space Mirror Memorial was cool too, it was a little drizzly by that time so I had it to myself lmao, it was nice to see everyone honored like that, even the ones who usually aren’t like Ted and Elliot and Charlie and C.C. I wish Ed Givens was included as well, and I hope someday he will be.

Space Mirror