Space Shuttle Lands In Fort Worth

Yesterday at 3:10pm the Space Shuttle Endeavor landed at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base here in Fort Worth.

The Space Shuttle is on its way back to Cape Canaveral after bad weather at the Cape brought about a November 30 touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Before its overnight stay in Fort Worth the Space Shuttle and the modified 747 it piggybacks landed at Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss in El Paso.

Miss Puerto Rico's brother, Tito, is stationed at Fort Bliss. Tito safely returned from Iraq in November.

The Space Shuttle is scheduled, weather permitting, to lift off from Fort Worth at sunrise. Maybe I'll see it flying overhead this morning when I go swimming.

On a related note. By far the coolest thing I've seen in all the time I've been in Texas was a Space Shuttle passing overheard. It was a nighttime landing. I did not know what to expect. We'd been told to look low on the horizon to the west. Suddenly this huge fireball came into view. I'd never seen anything like it. It passed very quickly, leaving a strange afterglow in the sky. When the glow faded we ran back inside and watched the landing in Cape Canaveral.