American Dynasty

  Hello Troops,      It has been a quiet week at the Space Centers so I thought I'd repost something I wrote in February 2009.  It is called "Things You'll Never Hear Spoken at the Space Center in a Million Billion Years."  I added comments (in purple) to add a bit of background to help you understand the sarcasm.         Let's make an updated version of this for 2024.  Take a minute and send me something for a current member of staff or a volunteer at any of the Space Centers.  I'll gather them up and make a new post for the staff and volunteers today.   Ad Astra! Mr. Williamson  The Staff Back in the Day at an Honor's Night Sorry for the blurry picture. Who do you remember? THINGS YOU’LL NEVER HEAR SPOKEN AT THE SPACE CENTER IN A MILLION BILLION YEARS. February 2009. Mark Daymont: "We're going to do a different mission today in the Magellan. No Death Trap today!" Mark loved that mission. It was his go to s...

Megan Warner to Become American Heritage School's Starship Discovery Field Trip Coordinator       Megan Warner was hired last week to flight direct the daytime in school Starship Discovery field trips for the students at American Heritage School in American Fork.  She will be working alongside Alex DeBirk, the Discovery Space Center's Director.  Lately, Alex has been burning the candle from both ends as he tries to keep up with both his responsibilities at the school; teaching high school physics and directing the space center.        With her new duties at American Heritage, Megan will be the only duel space center flight director.  She has been working with Bracken Funk at The Space Place at Renaissance Academy for past few years both supervising and flight directing the Voyager.  She is also working to refit the small trailer starship Nighthawk at The Space Place.         I've worked with Megan ...

       Sadly, I don't know anything about Kate because the planetarium people are the upstairs people and the simulator people are regulated to the downstairs.  Upstairs people have been known to cross the Great Divide from time to time to discover the source of the low rumblings from the simulators that can be felt in the planetarium from time to time. You'll seem them cautiously descend the staircase to Starbase Williamson one step at a time unsure of what they may see.  I've seen a few who wear masks "just in case" and others will hold a perfumed handkerchief to their nose to protect themselves from mysterious ethers.  I've heard rumors that they call us "PaleSkins" due to the simulator staff's rare exposure to the sun.         Happily we all welcome Kate to the Space Center family and ask that she drop a treat of something over the staircase from time to time to remind us that we are remembered.  Do it out of the kindn...

   Scott Wiltbank Receiving the Phoenix Microphone from Jon Parker      Attention, prepare for an important announcement. Hear Ye, Hear Ye.  Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.  Dominus Jameses Maximus Porterillius decrees that Scott Wiltbank be appointed Set Director of the Starship Phoenix; so let it be written, so let it be done (forgive me blending my histories, it was done for effect).      In a ceremony stretching back to the earliest days of the Space Center, Jon Parker, Director of Simulations at the Christa McAuliffe Space Center, handed the ship's flight director microphone, spittle and all, to the new Set Director. Scott accepted the microphone signaling his acceptance of the calling and his willingness to steer the ship along the course set by the Silver Perry's hard work and firm hand on the rudder.       Scott is an outstanding gentleman, scholar, and good judge of science fict...