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AARON TIPPIN VISITS JOHNSON SPACE CENTER
06/20/03
Aaron Tippin recently visited the Johnson
Space Center in Houston, TX and had the experience of a lifetime. Tippin
hosts GAC’s new show “Made In America” which brings viewers up close and
personal with the companies that make America what it is today. As
the host of the show, Tippin travels across the United States to visit corporate
headquarters of some of America’s most well known companies—including his recent
visit to the Johnson Space Center. While visiting NASA, Tippin had a very
special tour guide, Lt. Col., USMC and NASA Astronaut Fredrick W. “Rick”
Sturckow. Sturckow has participated in two Space missions so far and will
participate as crew commander in a third one in the fall of this
year. On his STS-105 Discovery mission, he took Tippin’s People Like
Us CD into space and sent it to him once they made it back home. Each
astronaut’s husband or wife is allowed to pick a song for the crew to wake up to
while they’re on board the shuttle and Sturckow’s wife chose Tippin’s song “Big
Boy Toys” for the crew. “It’s pleasant to find out that even rocket
scientists love country music,” commented Tippin.
While visiting the Johnson Space Center,
Tippin got to see the Neutral Buoyancy Lab--a huge pool where the astronauts
suit up and train for space missions. He also visited Building 9 which
includes different simulators and mock-ups of the space shuttle and space
station components. In Building 5, Tippin got to fly the space shuttle
simulator--Sturckow sat in the commander seat while Tippin took the pilot
seat--and successfully landed the shuttle three times under different
circumstances. He also visited the Rocket Garden which displays several
rockets, including the Saturn 5 and was allowed to see the KC-135, also known as
the “Vomit Comet,” where the astronauts train in 0G. Astronauts can only
stay in the KC-135 for 30 seconds at a time. Tippin also toured the
historical old Mission Control, the current Mission Control, and the ISS Mission
Control. The ISS Mission Control observes the International Space Station
24 hours a day. At Ellington Field, Tippin watched a T-38 take off.
You can see Aaron’s visit to Johnson
Space Center on an upcoming episode of “Made In America” on GAC.
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Jun 26, 2003