Chris and Theresa Update

We're almost late!

Theresa and I don't have much to report, unfortunately. I'm still at the library, making too little to pay the bills, and Theresa's still working with Kate to sell clothes via Lu La Roe. Not much to report there because after the holiday travels it's taken a while to get back into the swing of things!

I have been working on saving the missile pictured below by finding it a new museum. The museum that currently owns it is closing down, and it's actually a rarity (the only one on public display in the US). It hails from China and was designed under the direction of Tsien, the father of their space program. Besides being a good start to a Chinese collection of artifacts, Tsien has a very timely story—a Chinese immigrant who helped found JPL and worked with various aerospace luminaries in the post-war period, he was expelled from the US because of fears he was a communist. He wasn't, but after his poor experience with the US government, he was more than happy to help China build their ballistic missile and space programs. He died in 2009 without ever having returned, despite being close friends with many of the people who'd defended him against the baseless claims/fears of his being a communist. 

I found the missile accidentally but have since negotiated a purchase price ($2500) and figured out the transport cost ($1100), I just have to find a museum that will pay those so I don't end up owning a 24' long, 6600lbs missile just to save it from being scrapped or lost to obscurity! The Cosmosphere declined, though I seem to have been unbanned from the building... , so my next call is to the Cosmosphere's founder and former CEO and his museum—they seem flush with cash and Max apparently loved finding the rare artifacts. While the Cosmosphere was my first choice for displaying, I have a list of other museums that it would fit with, but if anyone knows of someone willing to sponsor a missile, let me know!

(It's rough-looking, and poorly displayed, at the moment, hence why it probably never attracted much attention)