By Kathy Barnstorff
Usually when I go on vacation I try not to think about work all that often. I’m not always successful (as some of my co-workers will tell you), but I do try.
But recently I went out of my way to check out an aerospace exhibit I ran across … in Sydney, Australia! It was at the Powerhouse Museum on Harris Street near Darling Harbour. We went to the museum, because I thought it would interest my engineer husband and because it was unusually cold in Sydney (the coldest day in October in 35 years) and we were looking for something warm to do besides eat. It turned out I was probably more interested than he was!
There were airplanes, videos from astronauts, a mock up of parts of the interior of the International Space Station and a “spacewalking astronaut” suspended from the ceiling. According to museum signs, NASA played a part in bringing all this to the down under audience. The monorail which rings the city centre goes right to there, so if you’re in Sydney it’s well worth a visit. We saw lots of local school groups.
There are interactive things for kids and adults (a unique electronic sheep shearing exhibit caught the eye of some young visitors). While we were there, there was a traveling design exhibit that took us down memory lane.
It was pretty cool to be able to say I worked for NASA while asking a local to take my picture with the space shuttle behind us.
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