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Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: RAIDER14 on December 22, 2006, 04:29:41 PM

Tune To NASATV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/)

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: Dux on December 22, 2006, 04:34:17 PM

Wonder if I'll ever outgrow getting a kick out of watching that.

Nope. :)

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: Skuzzy on December 22, 2006, 04:40:41 PM

Me neither.

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: Halo on December 22, 2006, 04:43:55 PM

Thanks.  Always amazing.

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: Nilsen on December 22, 2006, 04:49:14 PM

looks like its down safe.

wtg old bird :)

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: Dago on December 22, 2006, 04:51:58 PM

Watched it on CNN live, pretty cool.  I join the list that will never tire of seeing the shuttle launch or land.

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: Kurt on December 22, 2006, 08:29:27 PM

Yup, I'm a shuttle fanboy all the way back to Crippen and Young.  Don't think I've missed more than maybe 5 launches in the last 24 years.

I remember being an 11 year old kid, when my family lived in Mammoth, laying on the floor with the electric heater blowing on my feet in the pre-dawn west coast darkness on April 12, 1981.  It was 4am, and I was up to watch it.

My addiction started before that though... I bet it wasn't a year after they glide tested the Shuttle off the 747 when I had a Revell plastic model of it in my little hands.

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: LePaul on December 22, 2006, 08:31:59 PM

Yeah I watched the landing live too

Those long range cameras sure took some nice shots as the shuttle made a long turn over the Cape to land.  

Gotta wonder if those guys have a bet over who has the shortest rollout.  I heard the Cmdr was debating if it was a day or night landing.  Sunset + 15 mins = Night landing, so he chalks up a day one

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: xNOVAx on December 22, 2006, 11:14:31 PM

I watched it as well.. I figure I might as well take the time to see it land because the shuttle flights are numbered at this point.. We may never see another winged spacecraft in our lifetimes.. Thats fine by me actually.. Less people will end up dying, but there's nothing else like it...

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: Holden McGroin on December 22, 2006, 11:25:21 PM

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Originally posted by xNOVAx
I watched it as well.. I figure I might as well take the time to see it land because the shuttle flights are numbered at this point.. We may never see another winged spacecraft in our lifetimes.. Thats fine by me actually.. Less people will end up dying, but there's nothing else like it...

All the shuttle flights have been numbered.  sts-1, sts-2......

And the fact that it has wings is not the reason that Columbia and Challenger were destroyed.  It was that the orbiter was situated on the rest of the system so that a flaw in the other systems could damage the orbiter.  

Put a winged crew orbiter on top of booster system and both failures would have been averted.  (at least their fatalities)

And it looks as though they are still working on the x-37, seen hanging from Rutan's White Knight carrier aircraft.
(http://varifrank.com/images/scaled-x37-050526-18-8.jpg)

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: xNOVAx on December 22, 2006, 11:43:23 PM

What I meant by numbered is that these are some of the shuttle's last flights.. A few more years from now and they are going to be mothballed..

Title: Shuttle Landing
Post by: Holden McGroin on December 22, 2006, 11:51:00 PM

Yeah yeah... change your story now....;)