Oliver's Time in Virginia
Hello Victor and Mrs. Hudson's 3rd grade class! My name is Michael Vincent and I live in Yorktown, Virginia with my wife and 2 dogs. Oliver arrived in Virginia last week and although I wasn't able to do things with him until about a week later, we still visited a bunch of places! I marked the places we visited as blue symbols on the map below: The first day I decided to take Oliver to NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA where I work as a project manager for the System-Wide Safety project . My project performs research to improve the safety of all different types of aircraft including airliners and drones. I posed with him in front of the big NASA logo in front of the campus (we call this logo the "meatball" because its round like a meatball). Langley Research Center was NASA's first location - it was founded over 100 years ago in 1917! While you may know that NASA launches rockets, satellites and astronauts into space, NASA also does research to improv...