Florida residents may get a rare opportunity to view the Space Shuttle as it descends into Cape Canaveral for one of the fleet’s final landings before the shuttle program is retired forever. Targeted touchdown is 8:48 a.m EST. The shuttle will be visible through much of the US starting in the Pacific and traveling through the US Heartland.

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It’s hard to believe that it has been 40 years since those dramatic words, “Houston, We have a problem were uttered by the Apollo 13 Commander some 200,000 miles away from earth — on its mission to the moon. Here’s some footage from that day!

Watch the original Newscast footage from CBS News

See also: Apollo 13 Wikipedia Information

This will be my first content-related post on the blog! WOO HOO!

As you review the layout of our blog, you will notice that there is a “Twitter Feed” included. As many of the students recall, we followed NASA on twitter (@nasa) during the launch of the Hubble as well as subsequent launches.

Twitter allows us to interactively discuss what is happening in the world of science. While the feed is not completely up-and-running, you can follow YOUR class via twitter by following our class. Our class’ Twitter name is @MrWoodsClassFL