Shuttle Landing!

We saw the Discovery space shuttle make it's final descent into Dulles International Airport on Tuesday April 17. 

Heather (one of my bosses), Coralee, me, and Wendy (and Kathy was the one who drove us to see the shuttle but she did not walk up with us)

I got into work on Tuesday and some of my co-workers mentioned that the space shuttle was flying around the D.C. area to make it's final descent at the Dulles Airport.  (The shuttle is to be housed at the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum which is very close to the airport.) 

We talked about it and decided it was worth it to go somewhere to try to spot the space shuttle being flown in.  We decided to go the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum parking lot to watch. On the way we saw a lot of cars parked a long the freeway and on bridges and a long exit ramps to get a good view of the shuttle.

We got off at the exit for the museum but we could not get all of the way to the parking lot because the exit to go up was blocked off.  So we parked a long the bottom of the exit ramp (a long with a lot of other cars) and walked up the ramp to get a good view of the shuttle.  

And it was an awesome view!  We waited for a while and then this is what we saw. 

 Look at all those people that were there with us.  I got goosebumps the first time it came around.

 It was a spectacular sight!

See the fighter jet above it. 

 It was right there.  We were so close.  We saw it twice from this vantage point.  It flew this low one time but did not land, then it flew around one more time and we saw it again and then it landed.  We could not see it land because there were trees in the way but it was awesome! 

 

If you look at this picture you will notice the little space man on the right hand side, which we thought was so cute :)

I am glad that we decided to take this little field trip from work and see a little part of history.