The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!

MISCELLANEOUS
Driver Education, April 13, 14 & 15, 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Adult School. Call 489-2185 for info.

T.A. Students: If you have put your name in for a T.A. pass, please see Mrs. Whitaker in the admin office to pick it up.

Yearbooks are still on sale for $80 in Room 44. Buy yours now before the price increases.

By Robert Block
The Orlando Sentinal (MCT)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was a long time coming, but space shuttle Discovery finally blasted its crew of seven into a cloudless Sunday evening sky _ the first orbiter flight of 2009 to the international space station.

Its mission: to provide more electricity to the orbiting lab.

A month behind schedule, the mission has been delayed four times by fragile valves inside the shuttle's propulsion system. Then a hydrogen gas leak scrubbed Discovery's first launch attempt last Wednesday.

Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most accomplished navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned as a spy, identified and corrected the effect of iron components and equipment on board wooden ships upon compass readings, and wrote the seminal work on Australian exploration A Voyage To Terra Australis.

Read Matthew Flinders' A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1, free from Project Gutenberg. Volume Two is also available.