STS 133 - Mission Complete

After 27 years, the last time from the Legend, "Wheels Stopped".
Space Shuttle Discovery touched down on runway 1-5 at 11:58:14 AM on March 9th 2011. A beautiful text book landing under vivid clear blue skies.

A successful landing filled with plenty of sadness as the another chapter of the space program ends.
The next generation will not want to be astronauts because there are no more missions for them. No one will think of flying to space because there is no direction. I hope that NASA continues to quest for more and further into the unknown. More will look up from their cell phones and into textbooks finding out how to reach higher.

2 missions remaining for the shuttle program. Hopefully more will be added because we can and should. Imagine sending another teacher into space. Imagine bringing a classroom lesson into space. Why do some plants grow faster in weightlessness, let's watch. We need something for the whole world to cheer for. The enormous International Space Station is a major feat of mankind, building a survival pod in space. But this scientific victory is overshadowed by simplicity of Sheen rants.
*tissue time.

Watching for the last time....

Glued to the computer as I watch the last landing of Space Shuttle Discovery .

Only a nerd will really appreciate the monstrosity and the sadness of this mission.

This is the last mission of Discovery, a permanent marker will be place on the runway depicting the final stop of the shuttle. A total of 39 missions into space, this vessel has brought a lot of experimental technology into daily necessity. This is not the first landing I have kept up with, but each landing is filled with so much engineering excitement and adrenaline, the rolls to dissipate heat and decelerate, burning of plasma, the smooth glide to mission complete. Oh yeah, my kind of fun.

My dogs are looking at me, wondering why I am rocking with so much anticipation.

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