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Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: RAIDER14 on August 21, 2007, 10:13:36 AM: Scheduled to land around midday I think
NASA tv (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/)
They are almost to Deorbit burn
:aok
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: Cypher on August 21, 2007, 10:27:17 AM: Cool watchin it now
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: RAIDER14 on August 21, 2007, 10:34:17 AM: For more information on this mission go to nasa.gov (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html)
Landing scheduled to be at 11:32AM Central Time
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: AWMac on August 21, 2007, 10:42:27 AM: This is kewl...

:aok

Mac
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: AWMac on August 21, 2007, 11:07:23 AM: Awesome stuff!!!!

America, what a Country!!!

:aok

Mac
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: AWMac on August 21, 2007, 11:12:13 AM: Heehee a flyby over Cuba...

Too bad JFK wasn't alive to see this.

Get nervous Fidel...

:D

Mac
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: RAIDER14 on August 21, 2007, 11:16:27 AM: Looks like that damaged tile hasn't caused any problems.:aok
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: AWMac on August 21, 2007, 11:18:17 AM: Fingers crossed!!!

C'mon make it with no probs.

Mac
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: AWMac on August 21, 2007, 11:20:13 AM: Hope Cuba gets a few Sonic Booms....
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: Chairboy on August 21, 2007, 11:22:30 AM: For AOPA folks, there's a good thread about this in progress:

http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?t=32319

"Kennedy Traffic, left base turn over Okeechobee for 15 full stop, Kennedy Traffic"

"Any spacecraft around the planet, please advise."
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: RAIDER14 on August 21, 2007, 11:28:10 AM: 5 minutes till touchdown
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: Chairboy on August 21, 2007, 11:28:49 AM: Ah good, looks like some HUD footage.
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: Chairboy on August 21, 2007, 11:29:30 AM: BOOM BOOM!

Love that sound.
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: RAIDER14 on August 21, 2007, 11:30:44 AM: HUD footage of turn
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: RAIDER14 on August 21, 2007, 11:32:33 AM: Touchdown

chute out
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: AWMac on August 21, 2007, 11:33:58 AM: YES!!!!
:aok
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: red26 on August 21, 2007, 11:59:03 AM: Watching some of the videos how fast dose the shuttle travel ? It looked like it was going over whole country's in a few seconds wile in orbit. I know it travels at around 15000 miles per hour wile going to orbit but once in orbit how fast is it??
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: RAIDER14 on August 21, 2007, 12:08:29 PM: 17,000 MPH
source (http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2001-04/988378293.Ph.r.html)

STS 118 is in the books :aok
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Post by: nuchpatrick on August 21, 2007, 01:31:19 PM: Bummer I was looking forward to the windows rattling.. Seems the flew her in further south.
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: Boroda on August 21, 2007, 01:57:08 PM: WTG and welcome back.
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: Holden McGroin on August 21, 2007, 02:24:31 PM: Welcome back, but I still do not understand why they did not use the opportunity to test damage fixing procedures.

They missed a perfect opportunity to check the procedures and materials and change them for the time when the damage might endanger the orbiter and crew.
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: john9001 on August 21, 2007, 02:49:05 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Welcome back, but I still do not understand why they did not use the opportunity to test damage fixing procedures.

They missed a perfect opportunity to check the procedures and materials and change them for the time when the damage might endanger the orbiter and crew.

I agree with that, missed a good opportunity.
Title: STS 118 Shuttle Landing
Post by: moot on August 21, 2007, 04:51:50 PM: I don't know either, but I do know the gouge wasn't checked on by an astronaut EVA because it could have caused more damage. If I understood right, the tiles are that soft/britle.
NASA engineers thought about whether it was worth the risk of going out to fix it for a while, so it's not likely they haven't tought of such a nearly related scenario (taking advantage of an opportunity to practice repairs vs. whether an inspection EVA is worth the risk).