Star Party June 2009

Our family have been members of the Astronomy Club of Santa Clarita Valley, called "The Local Group", for about a year now and have not attended one of their Star Parties, until tonight!

We packed up our telescope that we purchased at a garage sale for $20 and drove out to Vasquez Rocks to meet up with the club. There were quite a few people there with some very elaborate telescopes. We were thankful to run into 'El Presidente' Steve, who helped us set up our telescope for an AWESOME view of the moon! Several others had great views of Saturn.

It was a wonderful time and we will definitely go again!

Neil Armstrong

You all know Neil as the first person to walk on the moon. Well, it's true, he was.

Here's his whole story:

One Sunday of 1936 six-year-old Neil Armstrong had an extrodanary experience...



...his first plane ride. It was in a plane called a Tin Goose (Ford trimotor).



After that Neil wanted to fly, fly, and fly everywhere. He even got his pilots lisence before his drivers lisence-- WOW-- his pilot's lisence was one of his 16th birthday presents!


Neil won a schollarship forPurdue University in Indiana. the US NAVY paid for ALL his education. In return he joined the military.


In the Korean war he accidently flew into a trap set by the koreans. The tip of the wing broke off but he safly landed the plane anyway. His work in the Korean war earned him 3 metals and the name The pilot that can handle all kinds of danger.