We were all looking forward to today. Our Youth Group, from synagogue, was getting together to experience a test launch of missile. ATK (a company in UT, that makes rockets for NASA) was scheduled to have a Peace Keeper Static Test. Which essentially means you get to go hear a big BOOM.
We arrived early and got set up to wait for the firing at 1:00 pm. Unfortunately, after a few minutes an announcement came on that there would be a delay until 2:00 pm. An hour wait, we figure we could all handle. Then after a few minutes, there was another announcement delaying the launch until 4:00 pm. Bummer. None of us wanted to hang around that long. Plus we had other "Rocket Day" events to attend.
So we packed back into our vehicles and drove up the road to the ATK Rocket Garden. Pretty cool. Lots of neat rockets & missiles for the kids to look at.
Of course, being kids they couldn't just "look". Here's David ... sitting on a rocket.
Here's some of the other kids playing in on the missile pieces. They kind of look like astronaut hamsters don't they?
Afterwards, the group headed up to Logan for some Aggies Ice Cream. "Aggies" is an incredibly popular ice cream made and served at USU.Then we went onto the USU Space Dynamics Lab for a personal tour.
I think that they would have cancelled our tour if we weren't family/friends of Dr. David Geller, our synagogue's beloved "rocket scientist" and father of three of the astronaut hamsters in our group. Apparently, NASA was on-site finalizing their purchase of 40 million dollar telescope. So the kids and parents were on their best behavior.
Lucky for us, we actually got to take a peek at the baby before the sale was finalized. The telescope was a state of the art, far infra-red telesccope, that will be launched into space in November. Apparently, the WISE Telescope is so powerful that if you looked through it in India you could read the name off of someone's employee badge in California.
