The new space gallery at the Museum of Flight. It is named after Charles Simonyi a Belguim Cosmonaut and one of the former Microsoft founders.
The commemorative T-Shirts for the event.
Shuttle fest 2012!
The schedule of events for the weekend and what a long weekend it was. I was there for 9 hrs that day and about 6 hrs the following day.
The museum's Astronaut greeting the public.
And here it is! The Super Guppy. The lear jet is being flown by Clay Lacy who was taking arial photos for the event. The Guppy is delivering the first component of the FFT (the crew module) to the Museum.
Taxiing to the Museum's ramp.
Short video of the Guppy.
The person with the legs on the railing is William Boeing Jr.
Local TV news personality (KOMO News Weatherman) Steve Pool was the MC for the event.
Nasa Astronaut and Seattle native Gregory Johnson.
NASA Director of Flight Crew Operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and Astronaut Janet Kavandi
Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire
The nose of the guppy swings open
There it is!
Driving the nose section out of Boeing field.
