The USSRC will be featured on TLC’s show, While You Were Out. The program will also feature astronaut Robert Springer.

This episode airs tonight and is entitled, “Skylab.”

Check your local listings for program time.

Enjoy!

Well, the wait is finally over. The Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission has new members.

The article, including the list of the Board members, can be found here .

Personally, I’m disappointed that at least one of a couple of individuals I had in mind weren’t appointed.

It really just looks like an uninspired list of bureaucrats and businessmen. Essential, to be sure, but the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission surely shouldn’t be composed only of members such as these.

Hopefully, in time, they will prove me wrong. And if not, nine members’ terms will expire next year, and a second chance will be granted.

For the record, as pulled directly from the article, the board is as follows:

The appointees to terms that will expire on October 1, 2005 are:

• Dr. Waymon Burke of Huntsville , Calhoun Community College
• Joe Collazo of Huntsville, Vice President of Callazo Enterprises, Inc.
• Jack Lee of New Market, President of Lee & Associates, LLC
• Gary Marcrum of Birmingham, President of Marcrum Management Company
• J. Garrett Martz of Huntsville, President and CEO of ELMCO, Inc.
• Roy Nichols of Huntsville, Chairman of the Board of Torch Concepts, Inc.
• Walter Penry of Daphne, Retired State Representative
• Mayor Loretta Spencer of Huntsville
• John Stallworth of Huntsville, President and CEO of Madison Research Corporation

Appointees whose terms will expire on October 1, 2009 are:

• Margie Cumbie of Huntsville, assistant to the Director of Community and Legislative Affairs at the Computer Sciences Corporation
• James L. Flinn, III of Huntsville, Deputy to the Commanding General , U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command
• Colonel Roosevelt J. Lewis, Jr. of Montgomery, Owner of Air Tuskegee, Inc. and the American Consulting Group, SSG
• Colonel Albert L. Patterson, III of Enterprise, President of Navigator Development Group, Inc.
• Todd Slyman of Madison, General Partner in the Slyman Investment Group, Ltd.
• Jimmy Ray Smith of Decatur, Vice President of Jimmy Smith Jewelers, Inc.
• William H. Stender, Jr. of Huntsville, CEO of CAS Weapons System Analysis, Inc.
• Irma Tuder of Huntsville, President and CEO of Analytical Services, Inc.
• Sidney White of Madison, President and General Manager of White, Fleming & Company, P.C.

Alabama Governor Bob Riley is expected to announce the new board for the Space & Rocket Center this week, as this article states.

I suppose that would mean today or tomorrow. We’ll just have to wait and see.

The Friday deadline has come and gone, so technically the members of the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission are now former members of the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission.

Yet this is only technically as there has been no word from Alabama Governor Bob Riley or his office regarding the matter.

The Huntsville times has posted an articled about it here.

This should prove to be yet another interesting week.

An article in the Huntsville Times reports that Alabama Governor Bob Riley has asked for every member of the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission, the commission that oversees the US Space & Rocket Center, to resign.

This should prove to be an interesting week. In the meantime, be sure to read the article.

This is just a reminder regarding a story I posted last December that tonight on the USA network, as they present a showing of Apollo 13 at 7pm tonight, they’ll also be showing segments shot at the USSRC.

Here again is a link to the article which talks about tonight’s event.

So tune in and enjoy!