Space Shuttle Discovery and Eagle Update

The space shuttle Discovery flew her last mission on Tuesday. The fleet leader of Nasa's three surviving shuttles, Discovery did not return to space this week. Instead the shuttle, which flew its last spaceflight in March 2011, took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida just after dawn, strapped to the back of a Boeing 747. The ferried flight took the shuttle up the east coast to Washington DC, where it looped low over the capital's airspace – providing a stunning scene against the backdrop of national monuments for thousands of onlookers lining the Washington Mall – before touching down at Washington Dulles International Airport just after 11 am ET. Discovery, which first blasted off in August 1984, is not going to be entirely out of work. On Thursday it will undertake a new mission: the spacecraft is to take up permanent residence in the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virgina. There, it will take the place of the shuttle prototype Enterprise, which is bound for New York City. Endeavour will head to Los Angeles this fall. Atlantis will remain at Kennedy. Peals of cheers and applause erupted from the nearly 2,000 people who had gathered along the old shuttle landing strip to see Discovery off at daybreak. Nasa tweeted pictures of the takeoff as the hashtag Discovery began trending on Twitter. The plane and shuttle then made a final pass over the beaches of Cape Canaveral — to the delight of thousands on hand hoping for a glimpse of the big bird— then returned to the space center in a final salute. Three hours later, Washington came to a standstill when the plane made a succession of laps through its airspace. Pentagon employees – troops, office staff and bureaucrats alike – cheered when the shuttle approached from its third pass, coming across Arlington National Cemetery. Me and my mom, grandma, and sis saw it fly over are house it was totally awesome. My dad even saw it at work he works close to were it landed.

The baby eagles dont look like babies anymore :(. They have grown so much over the week. they are now turning some what black and white instead of being grey. It also looks like they had a Delicious breakfast. They are growing more and more each day i hope we get to see their babies to. Remember you can see them to at www.Alcoa.com/eaglecam.