In yet another club members suggested event geared toward those club members who might otherwise stay home and pass out candy on Halloween night or simply turn out the lights and pretend that they are not home, West Coast Challengers arranged to get a tour of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA, the most […]
Archive for October, 2014
Halloween Ghost Hunt Aboard the Queen Mary
Posted: 31st October 2014 by West Coast Challengers in Club Event, Special EventTags: Eerie, Ghost Hunt, Ghosts, Goblins, Halloween Night, Haunted, Haunting, Long Beach, Night of the Dead, Paranormal, Queen Mary, Scary, Spirits, Spooky, Tour
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JPL / NASA Open House 2014 – Pasadena, CA
Posted: 1st October 2014 by West Coast Challengers in Club Event, Special EventTags: Curiosity, Earth, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Jupiter, Mars, Mars Rover, Mercury, Moon, NASA, Neptune, Open House, Pasadena, Planet, Pluto, Saturn, Solar System, Space Exploration, Sun, Uranus, Venus, Voyager
When the economy in America went south, government funding was, at best, slashed to agencies and contractors like NASA and JPL. The after effect was, that many public events, like tours and the annual open house at JPL, could no longer be sustained on their limited budgets, and were cancelled. This year, with the economy […]