UPDATE: To make it easier to find this entry, I've added a link to it in the right sidebar, right under the links for my books and my classes.

Presentation to the North Dallas .NET Users Group. Topic: Applying Architecture and Design Patterns in .NET. December 7. Postponed due to inclement weather. (Texans think ice belongs in drinks, not on roads.)

Presentation to the Little Rock .Net Users Group. Topic: Aesop's Fables of Software Development. December 8.

.NET 1.0 BootCamp, Orlando, FL. Class runs December 13-16; but travel plans just happened to work out that I'm traveling on the 11th and returning on the 18th. I can't imagine what I'll find to do with the spare time...

Presentation to the Montreal Microsoft .NET Architecture User Group. Topic: Tablet PC Development. March 14.

UPDATE: To make it easier to find this entry, I've added a link to it in the right sidebar, right under the links for my books and my classes.

Presentation to the North Dallas .NET Users Group. Topic: Applying Architecture and Design Patterns in .NET. December 7. Postponed due to inclement weather. (Texans think ice belongs in drinks, not on roads.)

Presentation to the Little Rock .Net Users Group. Topic: Aesop's Fables of Software Development. December 8.

.NET 1.0 BootCamp, Orlando, FL. Class runs December 13-16; but travel plans just happened to work out that I'm traveling on the 11th and returning on the 18th. I can't imagine what I'll find to do with the spare time...

Presentation to the Montreal Microsoft .NET Architecture User Group. Topic: Tablet PC Development. March 14.

Somewhat belatedly continuing the story of my visit to the Cosmosphere...



This is the harness that carried Enos, the first chimpanzee to orbit the Earth.









At the Cosmosphere, they have a LM mock-up where you can get quite close (closer than I got in Huntsville).





You can also get pretty close to their lunar rover.



Here's a sort of diorama of two Apollo Lunar suits in front of a lunar rover.



This is a docking probe, used to connect two spacecraft together. In all my reading, I had never known how these worked. Looking at the probe close up, I could get a little better view of how collapsing the "arms" inside the probe would trigger the docking latches. There's still something I'm missing, but it made more sense after I saw this.





Here are a couple of views inside a LM trainer.







Here are three views of the Apollo 13 Command Module, Odyssey.



Here's an unfortunately fuzzy shot of a fuel cell like the one that exploded during the Apollo 13 mission.



Here's Odyssey's heat shield, after it has done its work of keeping the crew safe from reentry heat.





Here's a mockup of the Soviet Lunokhod lunar probe.











This is a long string of pictures from an Apollo-Soyuz mock-up.



This is the lab where they perform restoration on the artifacts.

Well, that's enough for now. With luck, I'll have pictures of three more Command Modules in the next two weeks. Details later.