published: Friday, June 19, 2009

'Space Odysseys' available at area museums

'Space Odysseys' available at area museums

SEBRING - Gerald Pleau has spent the last three years compiling information from across the NASA Web site that is now available in one place. He calls it "Space Odysseys: An illustrated History of the first 28 missions to Outer Space."

Pleau wrote a small introduction, but all of the book is taken straight from the NASA Web site.

"It's hard to get anything better than the actual stuff done by NASA," he said.

It details the first 28 missions to space from 1961-72, with pictures of the rockets and other equipment used, as well as biographies of the astronauts themselves.

The information comes on a CD and includes a color poster of a Saturn rocket and the various patches worn by the astronauts for $15.

The CD is available at the Avon Park Historical Museum at 3 N. Museum Ave.; Sebring's Military Services Museum, 1402 Roseland Ave. off Kenilworth Boulevard; and the Lake Placid Historical Society Museum, 12 Park Ave.

Pleau can be contacted via e-mail at gjbpleau@aol.com.

Michele Avenue is re-opened

LAKE PLACID - As of 5 p.m. Thursday the Highlands County Road and Bridge Department re-opened Michele Avenue from Wildflower Street to Bond Street in Lake Placid to the public.

For further information, call the Road and Bridge Department at 402-6529.

Sebring observes July 4 holiday

SEBRING -- Sebring City Hall Public Works & Utilities Department will be closed Friday, July 3 to observe Independence Day.

The departments will re-open Monday, July 6. The Solid Waste Department will run regular all week. There will be no changes in garbage collection.