The Space Shuttle Discovery now has a new home. This morning it received a piggy back ride on a jumbo jet to Washington D.C. to it's new home, the Smithsonian Institute.
The cool thing is that I have family who live in the Maryland and Washington D.C. area who were on hand to see the shuttle come in. My cousin Linda posted a picture that she took on her Facebook page and I wanted to share it wit
It's hard to believe but today is the 42nd Year Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Here is a play by play of the way the mission all happened from the take off to landing on the Moon to coming back to Earth. Check it out.
Houston we have lift off!!!! The final mission is under way as the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off this morning from Cape Canaveral Florida of the final NASA Space shuttle mission.
I spoke with Chief Meteorologist Wade Hampton this morning LIVE from Cape Canaveral Florida from the launch site of the final Space Shuttle mission for NASA as the prepare to launch Atlantis.
Wade is out there covering the launch for all the folks back here in Southwest Louisiana and he was gracious enough to talk with me too. Here is the latest from the launch site from Wade:
NASA's long running Space Shuttle program is coming to an end in July. Space Shuttle Atlantis will be the final shuttle to ever go into space for NASA and the launch date has now been set.