No one assumes that I am from the Army. I am a soldier. While here, McArthur also visited Edgewood Middle School, Edgewood High School and Magnolia Middle School to encourage students to get the most out of their education. During the assemblies, he showed students slides of the Earth from space, of the space station Mir, shuttle launches and landings. McArthur punctuated his talks of the space programs with demonstrations, such as the balloon he used to show how a shuttle is launched.
Rocket science is just a lot of simple fundamental basics put together and a dramatic thing happens.
The end of McArthur's presentation was devoted to the importance of education. If you are taking these now, you are learning to be an astronaut, business people, lawyers and doctors. He told the students that he is still in school. Learning is part of being a human being. McArthur showed the students pictures of familiar landmarks, taken from space, such as the Grand Canyon and Chesapeake Bay.