Test Readiness Review and Space Center Houston. awesome.

This morning was another early morning. We had to arrange a ride back to the hangar because our rig is too big for either car we were driving. One of the other schools was kind enough to pick up our rig from our hotel and drive it to the hangar.
At the TRR (Test Readiness Review) , a team of engineers rotate from table to table to listen to your small presentation about your experimental assembly design.
They are to ask you many many questions about your project (not the science...more the safety of the experiment on the plane.)



It went really well. There weren't that many questions and the ones that were asked were what we could handle.



We won't know if we pass or not until tomorrow...

Since we had the afternoon off, we headed to lunch with our NASA advisor. We got to know him a bit more and set off to Space Center Houston.
It's like a children's museum of space.
It was awesome.

We got to see the inside of a shuttle, lay on a bed of nails, watch an incredible movie about NASA's timeline of missions and play the tourist and buy items from the gift shop.



After we left the Space Center, we went back to the hotel for homework and naps. Mostly the latter. Tonight we just decided to take it easy and do what we wanted (or needed) to do.

Tomorrow awaits our TRR pass or fail and tours...