Space Shuttle Retirement Locations for Fleet Announced by NASA

In the waning light after sundown, the space shuttle touches

down on Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility Runway.

Credit: NASA/KSC

On April 12th, NASA announced the plans for the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet. The plans include where the orbiters will spend the rest of their days on display.

Shuttle Enterprise, the first orbiter built for unpowered gliding drop tests, which has been on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia will be moved to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. The Space Shuttle Discovery, which retired after completing its 39th mission in March, will take its place.

Shuttle Endeavour, will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles after its final flight at the end of this month. The last Shuttle scheduled to fly for the space program, slated for a June launch, Atlantis, will be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

The Civil War, 150 Years Later

                                                           Civil War re-enactors in Charleston mark sunrise.

(CBS News) 

150 years later, and Americans still cannot agree on the meaning of the Civil War. The conflict began in April 1861, and by the time it was over four years later more than 600,000 soldiers - both North and South - were dead. No war has claimed more American lives. 

Flag bearers at the Ohio Statehouse mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Sunday, April 10, 2011. Commemorations across the country heralded the sesquicentennial of America's bloodiest conflict.

Tolerance Week

I'm proud of the group of 8th graders at our school that developed a program to present to the school on bullying. This week we celebrated tolerance week.Tolerance Week is a week of learning to accept others for their differences. It is accepting others as they are and not as we want them to be. This is the first time that our school has done this. I think that it was a great thing to do. I believe that it was more successful since the students developed and presented the program. I hope that our school can continue this activity next year. Great job guys!!

Game Demo Presentations

This week was a busy week. Everyone was trying to finish their game demos in order to present them. Five of the teams presented on Wednesday and the remaining five presented on Friday. It was quite nerve wracking at times, but everyone was able to present their game demos. It was great timing, because the students are on spring break next week.

Check out the Baby Eagles

Have you visited the website that features a small camera overlooking the nest of a pair of bald eagles in Decorah, Iowa. Thanks to the Raptor Rescue Project, more than 11 million people in over 130 countries have watched it thus far.

Live TV : Ustream

Our Game Demos

We finally got our back buttons to work. It took us a few weeks, but we figured it out. We have our game demos scheduled for this Wednesday and Friday. The students are working frantically to get them finished. They also have to practice for their game demo presentations. At least, the following week is spring break, and they can relax.

Fast Food in West Virginia

What fast food chain has the most stores in West Virginia? Most people think it's McDonald's, but it isn't. Subway has 251 stores compared to McDonald's 139. Wendy's is third with 105 stores, Pizza Hut is fourth with 75 stores, and KFC is fifth with 67 stores.

Additional Restaurants:

Tudor's Biscuit World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Taco Bell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Burger King. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Long John Silver's. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Gino's Pizza & Spaghetti House. . . . . . . . 52

Arby's. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Domino's Pizza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Quizno's. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15

Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster

Remembering the 29 miners that lost their lives.

This Tuesday will mark the one-year anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster in southern West Virginia. The explosion, which ripped through a Massey-owned coal mine in one of the poorest regions of the country, took the lives of 29 miners, making it the worst coal mine disaster in the U.S. in four decades.