The final landing of Space Shuttle Discovery will be televised Wednesday morning in the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s planetarium.
The shuttle is scheduled to land at 8:58 a.m., Pacific time; doors open at 7:30 a.m. Admission for the televised landing is free, but seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
The entry flight control team in Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will evaluate weather conditions before permitting Discovery to return to Earth. The shuttle landing date and time is subject to change.
Camas native and former “OMSI kid” Michael Barratt is aboard the Discovery as a mission specialist. Barratt frequently visited OMSI as a child, when his mother worked as a volunteer. Barratt attended OMSI classes and built his first telescope with the help of a former OMSI planetarium director.
OMSI is 1945 S.E. Water Ave. in Portland.
