Space Whales and Kitchens

I had the afternoon off so I took G-man to the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy aerospace museum at Dulles Airport in Virginia. This is where they put everything that won't fit in the National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian) on the Washington Mall. No matter how they tried they couldn't get the Concorde or the Space Shuttle Enterprise to fit in the NASM. Even at the Jumbo Hanger at Udvar-Hazy they've got planes stacked on top of each other. They must live in dread of the boss coming in and telling them to move something. You couldn't move one thing in that museum without having to move everything else. It's like trying to replace an o-ring in a faucet and ending up having to remodel the kitchen.

With the space walk going on by the space shuttle crew today I wanted to see the Space Shuttle Enterprise. It's size is overwhelming close up. Floating in space on the underside of the Shuttle would be like swimming with a Blue Whale.