I just received an email from one of the teachers on my WFOD telling us the video is up! I wish I could embed it directly into this post, but it isn’t allowed. Here are the links to the three videos! I was part of the “gold team,” hence those gold socks! Pop some popcorn and enjoy these shorts (short videos for those who don’t know that term).
Thanks again to Northrop Grumman for making this experience possible. Watching these videos brings back that day and all the great memories!
Today, in the Danbury News-Times appears an interview with me, Mr. B, regarding my flight Tuesday! It is a nice article giving some of the background of the Northrop Grumman Foundation’s Weightless Flights of Discovery program and even some tidbits about me. No pictures, but hopefully when I get back they will run some! T-minus less than four days!!!
One of the cool freebies we received as part of this great program is a DVD entitled “Inspire Me!” Below is a preview of the video. The premise of the whole movie is following a dozen teachers before, during and after their WFOD experience. There are also cool interviews with Story Musgrave.
I tracked down this classic James Burke video clip showing some earlier days of weightless or zero-g flights. The method remains the same, but the conditions are nicer and you don’t need a leisure suit (sorry to those of you who don’t know James Burke for his ’70′s attire. I think this video is from days of Apollo.)
