Glad you found me. As you can see, my blog has just launched today, only a mere coincidence as it's the eve of the social media credential application deadline for the August 13th, 2015 NASA social event... ;)
Let me exploit an opportunity to earn your attention!
My social media influence platform is deliberately dedicated to Space Exploration and popularizing Science. I aim my relevance at my fellow Millennial generation parents, care-givers and educators. Aiming my blog posts in that audience I hope to vicariously influence our country's children to pursue Space science curiosity! As a United States Navy wife to a First Class Petty Officer, I also have a unique (and enthusiastically patriotic) audience with like minded military spouses.
Until the first weekend of November, I'm residing in the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas, our Home of Record, and then, my children and I will be leaving for Sasebo, Japan to meet up with my husband at his new command! We're the adventurous type and we're eagerly awaiting this 3 year long adventure! With that said, I'm in a very conducive location to attend the RS-25 Engine Test at Stennis Space Science Center, Mississippi on August 13th! I haven't mentioned yet that prior to my husband's shore command, back home in San Antonio here, we spent 4 years in Washington state attached to the USS John C. Stennis, CVN 74! Prior to that we were stationed in Pensacola, Florida and passed the Stennis Space Science Center exit a number of times between there and home along IH-10!
My passion for Space came from my father. My dad worked late nights often and I would stay up past midnight waiting for him. In the 90's, Carl Sagan's Cosmos was being re-run. My dad had lost a sister in 1981 and I believe the "big picture" of the "pale blue dot" presented by Carl Sagan in the original 1980s airing of the series gave him peace upon the tragic loss of my Aunt Dottie. When my dad repeated Mr. Sagan saying that us humans "-occupy only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st" of the cosmic calendar, his words and depth of meaning sent chills up my back and down my arms. My father has since recently passed, Multiple Myeloma and Lupus Anticoagulant, at just 53 years old on December 4th, 2013. Needless to say, I've refrained from watching "Contact."
Now as a parent, I have nurtured and encouraged all 5 of my children's curiosities in the final frontier. Positively influencing our nation's youth to just "look up" is my ultimate agenda. The RS-25 engine could possibly be a force my children or grandchildren ride into the Solar System someday. Seeing it first hand and relaying the potential and EXCITEMENT of this engine test to my audience could impact a lifetime of dreams in the most valuable minds our species has yet to better achieve!
-The Spaced Out Mom
P.S. The picture below is of my son, Jack, watching the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-132) on its final launch, May 14, 2010.
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