Avengers Hit Home

The comic book, super hero smash Avengers was released last year.

A great flick with an all star cast, fantastical stunts and special effects, not to mention cool story line.  A favorite blockbuster for our family (especially our son!).

A really cool piece of trivia for this movie that hits close to home is that the first fifteen minutes were filmed at the facility where my husband worked for NASA.  The Glenn Research Center Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio... also called the Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility (B-2).

It's the world's only facility capable of testing full-scale upper stage launch vehicles and rocket engines under simulated high-altitude conditions.  It was built for space shuttles, specifically the Orion crew exploration vehicle.   Joe was in charge of the construction of the MVF or mechanical vibration facility.

All I knew, is that he was gone a lot.  Always wanted to tour the area and Joe was able to see the project to almost completion then was unexpectedly let go when Obama first came to office and trimmed NASA's budget (typical of working for the government...supposedly ALWAYS out of money).

Glad we all got to see it on the Avengers!!

Aerial of Plum Brook Station

Visitors look at the test chamber for spacecraft inside the space power test facility at the NASA Plum 
Brook Station in this 2009 photo. Scenes from "The Avengers" movie are being filmed this week
inside the facility.

        NASA banners inside the Plum Brook Facility during filming.

Been there done that...got the T-shirt.  Ha!

Links:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/technology/avengers.html
http://www.cleveland.com/avengers/index.ssf/2011/08/avengers_filming_wrapping_up_a.html