Kennedy Space Center

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Today Mom and Dad took a tour of the Kenedy Space Center.  Mom and Dad sure are excited about watching the Discovery Launch.  Personally, I don't get it....I mean, I've seen fire works before...isn't it like a big bottle rocket going up?

Dad even got Mom into a launch sumulator!  She said it was fun and it was suposed to be like going up in the space shuttle.

Anyway, Dad has talked to his second cousin and all is set up for us to go to the dock in front of his house.  Mom and Dad have been pouring over the cam-corder book trying to fingure that out.  Dad has a tendency to turn it on and forget to turn it off, so Mom has a lot of video from the Magic Kingdon of the sidewalk and people's feet!  She also talked him into using a tripod to shoot the launch.  This should be really interesting.

Discovery on launch pad 39A

Model of a space shuttle

As of today they said there was an 80% chance of launch.  They seem to be worried about a stray rain shower and fog.