KaiYves at the World Science Festival
Okay, as promised, long World Science Festival post, with pictures!
The whole area around NYU was a street fair, with booths set up for different organizations. The NASA area was CRAZY. I met up with my friend Erin, and we did moon jigsaw puzzles, looked at a Mars panorama through 3-D glasses, laid down and had a rover climb over us, and signed a shuttle tire!
Muse has yet to make it to the International Space Station, but Erin and I did take pictures in front of this great photomural of it:
Me with a member of the MIT spacesuit lab:
I asked if it would be possible to make space fingerless gloves, with the glove being traditional and the fingers being made of the stretchy Biosuit material that the woman’s suit is made out of. She said that was a great question, but the issue isn’t moving the fingers, but getting the hand to bend at the middle. Oh well. She said it was a good idea, though.
Me reading Muse in front of a model of the James Webb Space Telescope in Battery Park. The real one’s going to go 1.5 million miles from the Earth. If we could sneak a copy onboard, that would set some records, wouldn’t it?
The Muse issues I took along:
Astronaut Sandy Magnus signs my Muse:
Sandy’s signature:
Leland Melvin’s signature:
I got to talk to semi-famous science journalist Miles O’Brien, who was moderating the astronaut talk. He said he liked my question a lot, and when I asked for his autograph, he gave me a business card, but I explained why Muse was so important, so he took out his pen again, and:
“Remember me when you rule the world- Miles O’Brien!”
I have some things to say regarding that conversation which are more suited for the Kokonspiracy thread…
Date: June 8, 2010
Categories: Non-Muse news, The Universe
