Endeavour returns-11-30-2008

Thanks to the NASA channel,one can now watch the entire footage on the shuttle returning to Edwards Air Force Base in the Lancaster, Palmdale area of California.
In 1957 I was attending a teacher orientation in Riverside, California and we saw the Sputnik race across the evening sky.
It was at Edwards that Chuck Yeager had broken the sound barrier in 1946 or 1946. Alledgedly he had been out having a few drinks at the local watering hole and then mounted a horse for a leisurely ride.He was throwed from the horse and suffered a severe back injury but he still allowed them to shift him down from the mother ship to the cockpit of the test plane. He wasn't about to let them feel his pain or reschedule the flight.I guess they called that the
RIGHT STUFF.

My grand daughter has a special interest in the return for aboard were two experiments from the University lab and some cds from the children's hospital at Baylor's children hopital-aka-Purple Songs.