Honoring astronauts at Mission: Space
Monday September 10 will be “NASA Space Day” at Epcot, as Disney honors the crew of the space shuttle mission STS-118 aboard Endeavor. There is a great schedule of events throughout the day, including having the astronauts as grand marshals of the Magic Kingdom parade. Most of the day’s events, however, will be focused around Epcot and Mission: Space.
If you can’t get there, Disney is offering a live webcast. You can find it here. This is how the program is described…
The webcast presents highlights of Barbara Morgan’s recognition ceremony and plaque dedication at the Mission: SPACE attraction; an engaging NASA education session focusing on STS-118 crew experiments; and a Q&A session with the entire Endeavour shuttle crew and local school children
Maybe I am making too much of this, but this seems to me like exactly the kind of thing Disney should be doing at Mission: Space and Epcot. This is exactly the kind of thing Walt Disney would have wanted, and that is something a rarely ever say. I can’t wait to watch.
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Raidermatt said,
September 7, 2007 @ 6:11 pm
I agree, it’s a great fit.
Grumpwurst (aka Ray) said,
September 11, 2007 @ 10:56 pm
My wife and I were there for the public Q&A Session. It was quite an event. I got some great photos of the astronauts