The Sonic Boom

For the last 13 days we have become avid NASA TV fans. The kids have loved everything about Space Shuttle Discovery. They want me to read the articles in the paper, they watched the shuttle dock to the space station and of course the space walks were very exciting to watch. So of course we had to watch Discovery make its way back to earth. When we discovered that you can hear the sonic boom and possible see the shuttle fly overhead as it made its way to Kennedy space center we were all very excited. So on Saturday we turned on NASA tv and waited anxiously. Once Discovery made its way over Florida we headed outside. We knew we would have a good chance of it flying overhead. Just as we were about to give up we heard this loud and I mean loud two booms right in a row and then all the dogs in the neighborhood started barking. It startled the kids but once we explained what it was they thought it was very cool. So we headed back in and watched Discovery land on the tv. They all cheered and clapped when it finally touched the ground. It was a fitting ending to our first space shuttle experience in Florida.