Tien Suits Grauch

 

Tien and Bryan
Sorting family photo slides
Evergreen, CO - September 2005

 

 

Tien Training Astronauts Again
August 15, 2005

I was involved in training astronauts again this year. These were the astronaut candidates, class of 2004. Although they are technically called astronauts, probably all of them will become full-fledged astronauts in a couple of years.

We had two sessions of training this year, with half of the class each time. I have been promised group photos by email for both of these events, but haven’t received them yet. In the meantime, there were some reporters at the second training session, and I attach a pdf of the article that came out in the Taos News about it. You’ll see that another interesting thing this year was that we held the exercise on Taos Pueblo land. Several officials from the Pueblo came out to greet the astronauts. Although it is not detailed in the article, apparently Taos Pueblo sent a group of members to Texas after the Columbia disaster to help search for debris. The astronaut candidates were very touched when they learned this.

Of course, I was once again very impressed by the astronauts as people. This year, I had a chance to interact with them more one-on-one during a rock-property exercise that I developed (the Taos News photo was taken during this). NASA also has an extensive education/outreach program and they sent a film crew to the second session of training. I was interviewed for a film they were doing to excite school children to go into science careers. They said they would send me a copy of the whole film when it was done, so we’ll see if my interview does make it in there or not. At any rate, it was an experience!

Click here to see July 2004 story

 

 

 

 
Tien and Dick Grauch - Christmas 1992
 At their home: 676 W. Meadow Rd., Evergreen, CO
Tien's husband's name is Richard Irons Grauch, known as Dick.
Grauch is a German name, but the 'ch' is silent. It rhymes with 'now'.


Tien Grauch with Frost on the Cactus 
Big Bend, TX  - January 1995
Tien Grauch
Working on grading by the house
Evergreen, CO - August 1995
 


Hi everyone, Greetings from snowy Colorado!

Here are some pictures from the storm of 2003, March 18-19. The official total for our area in the foothills was 72". However, the snow compacted as it came down so it was really only 4-5 feet that we've had to deal with! That's chest high. We never realized how hard it is to walk through chest high snow!

 

(Our Houghton, Michigan relatives are probably laughing at us at this point).

 

We're still home bound after 3 days, but we have power, water, and food, so we're doing well. We've been snow-blowing the road because the truck with the plow on the front keeps getting stuck! Interstate 70 is still closed along our main commute route, but it might open soon.

Tien and Dick

 

Tien's Husband - Richard (Dick) Irons Grauch
White Sands, NM - Nature Trail Stop #19
 December 1994  
 

Andrew Richard Grauch and Christopher Irons Grauch - Christmas, 1992
Dick's children (Tien's stepchildren) are Andy Grauch and
Chris Grauch, currently (in 2002) ages 31 and 29, respectively.  Andy
has a wife Julie and daughter Zoey, who is 5.  Andy and Chris lived with
us most of the time during school years. 
Andy and family live in Jackson, WY.  Chris lives in Boulder, CO.
Tien and Dick Grauch
Rocky Mountains west of Fort Collins
July 1998
Dick Grauch with his mother, Addie Grauch
 Rocky Mountain National Park
 June 1998
Tien - November 1962
Tien at Carleton College
Northfield, MN

 

 
Tien and Bryan
Christmas 1955
Tien and  Bryan
Christmas 1955