Space Shuttle Discovery

The very best part of the day!  It was amazing and the pictures do it no justice. My heart skipped a few beats when we walked into this humongous room to the following: The Space Shuttle Discovery

The arm, provided by Canada, that the astronauts used to space walk.

National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center - Part 2

Pictures above are of satellites.

I was told the marvelous things they did, but...

Two happy campers amongst all the machinery.

Following pictures of re-entry capsules,

each with an interesting story, but the ladies

sitting there forgot them.

Picture below is the restoration room. 

It is immense with a lot going on in it.

National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center - Part 1

On July 15th, we had a senior missionary tour of the 2nd Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.  The original museum, which is still open,  had  so much "stuff" , a second museum was built, and Mr. Udvar wrote two very large checks for the construction of it, so, of course, it was named after him.

We had an excellent volunteer tour guide, who managed to have a story for

everything he showed us. He managed to keep the women interested, sort of.

The following just show the scope of this place, pretty amazing. 

They had one of a kind planes, only one left planes, planes from Germany

and Japan from the WWII, and a ton more.

See the Blackbird?

The Concord

This is a Pan Am plane, one of the first to fly passengers globally.

Grandpa Claire Banks flew this to Alaska in 1953.

The Enola Gay that dropped the first atomic bomb in Japan.

Kamikaze plane

Happy Birthday, Hank!

This happy, active, cutest little guy turns two on July 27th!  Hank is growing up fast chasing his older brothers and sister. Don't think I could refuse any request from this one.

Goodbye Elder & Sister Smith

                           

Elder and Sister Smith - July 2017

We said a sad good bye to Elder (Dr.) and Sister Smith. They are

wonderful human beings. They served as Medical and Mental 

Health missionaries. They worked very hard and accomplished

much. We loved being around them. Elder Smith always had 

funny riddles for us at staff meetings. We will miss them a bunch.

Washington DC Temple

I take a picture of the temple whenever I see it, so I decided to start posting them, at least the ones that are half way decent.

Start of the refurbishing - see the boom

at the spire?