Guus Bosman

Friday morning Nancy, a friend, came to pick me up from the house. We went together to the Nasa Goddhart center, outside Washington. We had some small troubles finding the way to there, but we managed and it was worth the journey. Anyway, it was a pleasant ride and we talked a lot. There was an exhibition hall at this Space Center, like a small museum. They had real-size models of the Apollo shuttles, and I actually sat in one them. So small!

We had lunch together in Danny's. Later that afternoon I went to the Air and Space museum, downtown Washington. It was recommended to me by many people... and they were definitely right, it was very impressive. The museum contains many real airplanes, space artifacts and missiles. The building is huge to accomodate all these.

There was a piece of the moon, that you could actually touch. Nice! I saw the plane that the Wright brothers used, and a real exemplar of one of the Apollo shutles. I liked the part about computer-based aircrafts, because there was some stuff about the history of computers as well. It was the first time I saw a real radio-tube, which was used in computers before transistors were invented.