Space Shuttle Columbia

Cross Plains might not be the first place you would think to look for an astronaut but that's where you will find one this November 26th. Cross Plains is the home of the Columbia Shuttle Tire and Space Exhibit. The Columbia Space Shuttle blew up over Texas in 2003.

Well here in West Texas we are entering something like 50 days of 100+ temperatures.  Those temps with lack of rain are wreaking havoc all over the state and lakes, streams and rivers are drying up fast.  This is the case in Nacogdoches where the lake there is 9ft low and has exposed parts of the Columbia Space Shuttle.

The NASA space shuttle program is about to come to and end, sadly.  The retired shuttles will have new homes, but Houston is not one of them.