Have a beer to celebrate Neal, Buzz, and Mike!!!

[ct_vol]

Ashley DVR'd this for me... And I'm very happy that she did...

Dr. Jeff, our resident Rocket Scientist/ Reef Keeper was on TV!!!

Here's a link to the video, if you don't have 5 minutes to watch the whole thing, you can fast forward to the last 1:30 minutes and see his whole part...

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[planejane]

Too bad this is the only way we get to see Jeff any more!!!

 

[ct_vol]

I never knew he was such a romantic... :inlove:

Oh, and thank you for my Satellite television service Jeff... Football season would not be the same with out it...

 

[vol_reefer]

The only reason they came to me is because the two more senior planetary professors in our department are out of the country at a conference this week...

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15372997#post15372997 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by planejane
Too bad this is the only way we get to see Jeff any more!!!

I know... I wish I hadn't missed so many lately. It seems like the meetings have been lining up with other commitments and travel every month. Looks like this month will be the same, unfortunately.

Sometime this Fall we'll host a meeting at our place - once the basement project is finished we'll have lots of room.

Jeff (vol_reefer)

 

[fishdoc11]

:beer:

It's funny, my daughter (Anna) asked me if we could go to the moon on vacation this morning. I kinda had to explain that not many people get to do that.....and that it had been a while since "we" had been there.

I did tell her that if that's what she really wants to do with a LOT of school and training she might make it there someday. She told me she was already good at jumping and that's what they did a lot on the moon anyway:lol:

Very cool about naming the rock on Mars after your wife Jeff. Not many guys can do that:eek1:

 

[vol_reefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15374373#post15374373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishdoc11
:beer:

I did tell her that if that's what she really wants to do with a LOT of school and training she might make it there someday. She told me she was already good at jumping and that's what they did a lot on the moon anyway:lol:

I told the reporter another benefit to the space program is that it seems to inspire kids to study science and engineering. But they apparently liked the "beer" line better...

Last November, my son Max (kinda) got to meet one of the guys who actually went there, although he's not likely to remember it:

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That's Harrison (Jack) Schmitt next to Max (and Sarah). Jack was on Apollo 17, the only scientist ever to walk on the Moon. He's friends with one of the other profs in our department and stops by to visit every couple years. A few years ago I was teaching an undergrad course on planetary geology and we had a lab where we were looking at samples from Apollo. Jack was in town, so I had him come talk to the students about what it was like to pick up the very samples they were studying - one of the coolest things I've ever had happen in my classroom.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15374373#post15374373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishdoc11
Very cool about naming the rock on Mars after your wife Jeff. Not many guys can do that:eek1: [/B]

The lucky thing about that rock is that it turned out to be the best example of a whole class of rocks we found with Spirit (the rover), so now it's used all the time in scientific talks and papers. There's even an academic book on the composition of the Martian surface that has a figure showing the infrared spectrum of "Sarah" - couldn't have planned that! I told her someday when we colonize Mars, Spirit's route will probably be some kind of national park, and there will be plaques at the foot of each rock showing all their names, including hers.

Jeff