With Erin, Brock, Lucas, and Lee visiting from Louisville, I got my excuse to go out to the Dulles Air and Space Museum to see the space shuttle Discovery in its new home. It replaced the Enterprise, which went to a new home in New York.
The shuttle is simply amazing. It is both huge and small, at the same time. The tiles are individually screwed on. The wings and tail have wind damage on them. The engine exhaust pipes are massive.
It is just a masterpiece of engineering and it made me very sad that the moon program at NASA has ended.
And as I suspected, the whole of the museum was a great hit. Lucas, wanting to see the Air and Space Museum because of the movie “A Night at the Museum II”, was at first sad that we weren’t going to the main museum. Then he saw the planes and helicopters and jets hanging from the ceiling. Subsequently he has decided that this museum is his favorite (though, that might change when they visit the Spy Museum).
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