2-20-10We took Mike up to see Deb and Brian Sharkey. Deb is Mike's cousin and Sue's neice. Deb and Brian live near Columbia Maryland. See the photo. Brian will stay with them and then come back to Alexandria, before he leaves for Wisconsin on Monday evening.
Sue and I drove off through the Maryland countryside - it was rural in places. We headed down to the Udvar-Hazy Air branch of the Air and Space Museum right by Dulles. Got there about noon.
The museum is free, the parking is NOT. We took in the IMAX on adventures on the Moon, had lunch, and walked the hanger. Lots and lots of stuff to read about. But I found something of particular interest to me - a scale model of the exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) that was going to be the US's defense against incoming re-entry vehicles - remember Missle Defense before it got dumbed down. I used to do high-performance modeling and simulation of this little dude hitting RVs, to see what it would do. And here was the model. How 'bout that!
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