Duke University - May 2006

	The Duke University Chapel, perched on the highest point of Duke's campus, built in 1935
	Residential colleges at Duke University - an example of neo-Gothic architecture.
	A single photoelastic disk, viewed through circular polarizers (courtesy of http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=104266&org=NSF)
	A frictional slider dragged across the surface of photoelastic disks showing the complex force propagation network (courtesy of Peidong Yu)

NASA - May 2006

	Dr. Philip Metzger and Dr. Antoinette Tordesillas standing on the gangway that the astronauts walk across to enter the space shuttle at NASA Kennedy Space Center.
	Dr. Philip Metzger and Maya Muthuswamy standing at the base of the flame trench of the space shuttle launch facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center.
	A piece of rock embedded in the chain-link fence surrounding NASA's space shuttle launch facility - during lift-off, the enormous force of the shuttle rockets blasts off chunks of rock from the flame trench and shoots them away at high speeds.
	Maya Muthuswamy and the space shuttle Discovery orbiter being backed out of the OPF (orbiter processing facility) on May 12, 2006.
	The part of the space shuttle launch facility that "wraps around" the orbiter before lift-off (it swings away just before launch)
	Maya Muthuswamy and the space shuttle Discovery orbiter about to enter the massive VAB (vehicle assembly building) on May 12, 2006, to prepare for its launch on July 1, 2006.
	One of the infamous vultures causing problems for NASA's space shuttle launches.