Tuesday, 29th August 2006

Our day started wandering through to Murphy's Deli for breakfast! We were unsure how the day was going to work out, but on arrival at the Houston Museum of Natural Science we discovered that I had been included as a delegrate for the conference, my badge giving me "honorary Houston citizenship". It was a day crammed with activity as we were assigned to separate groups and set off on our programmes, but not before we had been thrilled by the presentation from Astronanut Scott Parazynski, an astronaut with four shuttle mssions to his name.
In our group we played with and were given new software, we viewed the developing ideas for use in 'inflateable domes', visited the Challenger Learning Centre in Houston (housed in the Museum) and exchanged ideas.

It was a very interesting day rounded off with burritos in a Mexican restaurant and a visit to 'Bodyworlds' at the Museum, which were displayed authentic body parts and skeletons!!!!!!