Change in Tactics

Finally, work is getting done on my final presentation. Last Friday, I decided to change my topic: I am now going to create a presentation on space stations, focusing on the International Space Station. I decided to switch mainly because my previous topic, of how space research has helped us understand the Earth, was a little too vague – I couldn’t really find anything specific enough to be crafted in to a fifteen minute presentation. My new topic, though, should be more doable and interesting. I plan to start out with a discussion of space stations of the past, ranging from preliminary ideas to Skylab and Mir; from there, I will talk about the construction of the ISS, its current uses, and its future. From here on out, I’ll have to find pictures and animations via the NASA and ESA websites to use in my presentation. From there, I’ll actually program the presentation and make note cards.

On a completely separate note, here’s a picture of that globe that I dusted about two weeks ago (I finally got around to uploading it from my camera).

The girl in blue is Destiny, one of the other volunteers, and the man in blue is Clyde Simpson, the observatory coordinator.