Being from the Space City was an advantage that we knew we needed to take advantage of.
I contacted Space Center Houston, Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership, and Citizens for Space Exploration for assistance. Alex, Logan, and Dallas spent quite some time reaching out to individual people to get attention to the photo. Many of our interns shared the photo with their friends, families, and colleges. Our true creativity came with our efforts to advertise our photo. Alex Kafer, left, provided (literal) support from underwater during the photo shoot.Īfter Alex, Meredith, and Logan enhanced the photo, the true challenge began. The looks could have been from the wet flight suits, or they could have been that a group of kids just crawled out of Mud Lake, either way there was nothing to see here, just a few interns. We eventually crawled out of the water and proceeded to walk around in our drenched flight suits. I wish I could say that our expressions of discomfort were an imitation of the photo and not a result of us flopping around. We finally pulled it together and lit the flare. We dealt with a wet flare, hats flying away, and interns floating in opposite directions. What followed included a flurry of comedic events. Alex had to eventually dive in and push us up for us to appear as if we were floating. As we were determined to be as accurate as possible, we flailed in the water for quite some time trying to get our legs up.
In the photo, the three astronauts have their legs tangled up. Regardless, we plunged into the cold water. Of course, we didn’t know we were in Mud Lake until various Johnson employees later saw the picture and all did a double take on our location choice. We somehow ended up at the lake across from Clear Lake infamously known as Mud Lake, or, alligator haven. We picked the nearby lake, Clear Lake, as our photo spot. Saying that this “photoshoot” was madness is an understatement. NASA JSC Interns Jenna Kay Foertsch, Logan Bennett, and Dallas Capozza get comfortable in the water in preparation for taking their challenge photo. Our team consisted of (me) Jenna Kay Foertsch pictured on the left, Logan Bennett pictured in the middle, Dallas Capozza pictured on the right, Alex Kafer not pictured because he was under water holding us up, Meredith Murray was the genius behind the camera, and Barry Berridge was support.
We gathered our team and created our plan. Alex Kafer handmade the hats, the orange flight suits were purchased at Space Center Houston, and the remaining materials were collected at a local Walmart. He eventually concluded that we were going to need to purchase an actual smoke signal. This photo was far too complex to “wing it.” Logan made a dozen phone calls to local party and Halloween stores searching for something to create the orange smoke. Many questions that needed to be answered included things like, “How do we create the smoke?”, “Where are we going to get the outfits?”, and “How are we going to do this with two days left?” It was clear early on that we were going to need to create a plan.
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Logan and Barry Berridge held a brainstorm session on how to tackle this multifaceted photo. After searching through hundreds of photos on NASA commons he had found the one. Logan Bennett spearheaded the photo search with thoughts that we needed something more eye-catching. A small group of us decided that it would be best to pick a photo that wasn’t originally suggested. Additionally, gaining access to Mission Control overnight would be just as grandiose a challenge. This was to our advantage, but we thought it would be too simple to settle for the obvious. We were in a special position being at our location since many of the suggested photos surrounded Mission Control or other iconic Johnson locations. As a fiercely competitive and creative group, we knew we had to create something unique to clutch Johnson Space Center’s first win.
It wasn’t long before someone brought up the Intern Photo Challenge. The interns at NASA’s Johnson Space Center slowly shuffled into our weekly meeting, and you could hear the usual bouts of laughter muffled from the outside. It was a few days before the Intern Photo Challenge submission was due.
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