In The Shadow of the Moon (Rocket)

On July 20, I took Maddie to a gathering in the Saturn V building on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was a get together for the flight controllers currently working the STS 127/ISS2JA mission. There were quite a few people there, although you wouldn't know it by the pictures I took - Maddie was playing the shy card. She enjoyed checking out the Saturn V rocket that was supposed to be Apollo 18, but the program was cancelled before it was used.

Although Maddie is pretty small, you can still get a sense of how huge the first stage rockets are (5 total).

Maddie paused for a photo op with the Apollo 11 crew (Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin).

And this is where they went... Let's do it again!