Does NASA Know This?

"My high of the day, or one of them, is that I got to see the space shuttle."

"You saw the space shuttle today? Did I miss the permission slip for the field trip to Cape Canaveral?"

"No. On our way home from school today, Mr. D (bus driver) pointed it out in the sky."

"You saw the Endeavor flying across the Michigan sky?!"

"Yeah! It was really cool!"

"LM, tell me, how did you know it was the shuttle you were looking at?"

"Well, cause it was too bright to be a star, and it was moving far too quickly to be a plane."

"So it just had to be the shuttle? You don't think that maybe it might be difficult to see the shuttle from the ground?"

"Mom. It was landing. We didn't see it out in space, we saw it as it was landing."

"It was landing in Michigan?! LM, I think the shuttle usually lands in Texas, it doesn't come down over land."

"I know, Mom. "

"So you think the Endeavor came across Michigan on it's way to Texas to land."

"Yeah."

A few clicks on the computer later -

"Hey, LM? The NASA website shows pictures of the Endeavor today!"

"Oh yeah? Of the landing?"

"No, of their fourth space walk mission. Seems they must have made a really quick landing today if they had time for a space walk before their detour over the great lakes."

"oh."

Two disappointments in one day. The poor, poor kid.