Archive for February, 2020

Star Ledger WTWS Article from Amy Kuperinsky

Saturday, February 22nd, 2020

With a flattering title of “Meet the Texas man who loves this N.J. water tower so much, he built a virtual museum in its honor“, Star Ledger reporter Amy Kuperinsky writes a nice article about Union’s World’s Tallest Water Sphere and various people associated with it. You get to hear about other towers, water tower […]

The World’s Tallest Water Sphere Museum is now Open to All

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

The World’s Tallest Water Sphere Museum is now open. I’ve added a section to the WTWS site that has a virtual museum with lots of artwork, photos, and fun stuff. http://www.worldstallestwatersphere.com/museum/ The WTWS Museum has been operating as a physical museum in Austin, Texas since 2003. This virtual version of the WTWS Museum was created […]

An Idea for a Union, New Jersey T-shirt

Wednesday, February 12th, 2020

Since Route 22 is the closest highway to the World’s Tallest Water Sphere, and since it is notoriously crowded and difficult to drive, I thought a T-shirt honoring those Route 22 drivers would be in order Here is a rendering of a possible Route 22 driver T-shirt. Let me know what you think. Feel free […]

Revisiting Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport

Sunday, February 9th, 2020

As we have mentioned and admired in previous posts, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia has a beautiful water tower. We wish them luck in tonight’s launch of Northrop Grumman’s 13th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station which will deliver more than 7,500 pounds of science and research, crew supplies, and […]