Exercise U2-2 gazebo not showing as expected

I apologize for the delay.
The problem you have on not visualizing the meshes is due to two things:

  1. You must copy the models using the command:
    cp -r /home/user/catkin_ws/src/my_mira_description /usr/share/gazebo/models/
  2. There is a permission problem inside the academy when issuing that command. Tomorrow morning will be solved. I will put a comment here when solved