Out of this World ??

We spent a day in the Alamogordo, NM, area; first with a stop at the Space Museum.  This part of the country was a major participant in missle and rocket development, and even had the third space shuttle land at White Sands when the Kennedy Space Center was socked in and Edward AFB (primary backup site) was down for runway construction.  We toured the museum which had some great models and writeups of the space programs and the astronauts.

Morey even got to stand next to an actual Honest John rocket (tested the emergency systems for the Apollo moon program).  He had flown his Estes model of this famous rocket with the grandkids; and now there the "real one" was there on display.  {Please don't tell the grandkids, but we discovered that the rocket is actually called the Little Joe; Morey memory failed.}
Oh, and almost forgot to mention that Ruthie got to get into the spacecraft cockpit of the elevator!

 

Then we drove 30 miles north to Three Rivers Petroglyph Park (BLM).  An incredible 21,500 petroglyphs, created 600 years ago, are all over the ridgeline on the exposed rocks.  We walked the mile trail and spotted at least 500 petroglyphs.  Out of this world?  Pretty COOL!  PS - A nice BLM campground with this park where we had a pull thru RV site with water and electric for $9!