{"id":503,"date":"2012-11-21T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=503"},"modified":"2012-11-21T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:28:12","slug":"landing-party-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2012\/11\/21\/landing-party-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Landing Party a success!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great time was had by all!<\/p>\n

The Landing Party<\/a>, held on November 17, 2012 to welcome back to the museum the 1\/40-scale test models of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and Space Shuttle <\/a>from their trip to Los Angeles aboard NASA\u2019s full-scale Shuttle Carrier Aircraft<\/a>\u00a0was a great success.\u00a0 The party also celebrated the return of NASA research models, Mothership, X-33, and Moth, from The Children\u2019s Museum of Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The newly re-designed exhibit space for NASA models.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Visitors were able to look through a telescope with a special filter to see the sun, make and launch a model rocket, hear Robert \u201cHoot\u201d Gibson and Gary Ash speak via Skype, read stories about space, as well as tour the museum and enjoy cupcakes and snacks.<\/p>\n

\"Visitors<\/a>
Visitors listen to a Skype presentation by Retired Astronaut Robert \u201cHoot\u201d Gibson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"There<\/a>
There were some great snacks available during the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many thanks to everyone who came out, as well as to our partners, the Muncie Astronomy Club<\/a>, Rocketeers of Central Indiana<\/a>, Toys Forever Models and Hobbies<\/a> and Muncie Public Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A great time was had by all! The Landing Party, held on November 17, 2012 to welcome back to the museum the 1\/40-scale test models of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and Space Shuttle from their trip to Los Angeles aboard NASA\u2019s full-scale Shuttle Carrier Aircraft\u00a0was a great success.\u00a0 The party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,62,47],"tags":[52,83,32,50,69],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-2","category-exhibits-2","category-museum","tag-annoucement","tag-family-fun","tag-muncie","tag-museum-2","tag-space-shuttle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}