Posted on 08/20/2007 7:09:05 PM PDT by KevinDavis
They expect Endeavour will encounter “the first traces” of earth’s atmosphere at 12:00 EDT sharp.
I'm calling you out Dutch. You are a troll. You are here simply to make "Border Warriors" look bad. You have come in this thread to poison it with your trolling. P*ss off.
NASA Landing Blog,
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts118/launch/landing-blog.html
Note: All times are given in Eastern (EDT) unless otherwise noted.
11:31 a.m. - Endeavour is turning back toward a nose-forward, wings-level orientation. One hour from now, the orbiter will be on its final approach to the runway in Florida.
11:28 a.m. - “Endeavour, good deorbit burn. No trim required,” astronaut Chris Ferguson called up to the astronauts aboard the orbiter. With the burn complete, Endeavour is headed for a landing at Kennedy Space Center at 12:32 p.m.
11:25 a.m. - The deorbit burn is under way! More than 200 miles above the coast of Malaysia, Endeavour’s two orbital maneuvering system engines are firing for three and a half minutes — enough to slow the vehicle by 252 miles per hour and start its descent through Earth’s atmosphere. During the burn, the orbiter is turned to a tail-first orientation, so that the maneuvering system engines — located on “pods” at the aft end of the vehicle, near the three main engines — fire in the direction of travel. Each engine produces 6,000 pounds of thrust.
Endeavour is targeting Runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility.
Landing will be on runway 15 from the NW to the SE after passing over Florida and the Cape from the SW to the NE and turning left once over the Atlantic.
I have NASA tv on and watching the race and JAG.....
42 minutes to touchdown.
(PEI = First contact with the atmosphere.)
10-4
had a tough time finding this!
Amen, brother.
Stand by for sonic boom.
Coming right over the house this time (On the beach across the intracoastal from Melbourne, FL)...Unfortunately, I’m at work in Orlando. Damn.
spaceflightnow.com
1600 GMT (12:00 p.m. EDT)
ENTRY INTERFACE. Endeavour’s thermal protection system is feeling heat beginning to build as the orbiter enters the top fringes of the atmosphere — a period known as entry interface.
The shuttle is flying at Mach 25 with its nose elevated 40 degrees, wings level, at an altitude of 400,000 feet over the southern Pacific Ocean.
Over the Pacific now, doing 2,000 mph.
Weeeee!
oh yeah. if they are so great, then why did they allow a 20 cent O-ring blow up a shuttle?
this is scary stuff right now
I understand, and that is why I agree with your earlier assessment. Governments usually end up funding the initial steps of ventures that have long-term payoffs. Most of the initial journeys to the Western continents were government-funded, as I recall, usually with a military/economic incentive. We did it that way ourself with the Lewis and Clark expedition. Once the trail was blazed, it opened up the frontiers for private ventures. My guess is we’ll see a similar pattern woven with the opening up of development beyond the Earth, but for now, we’re going to have government-funded initial steps.
It was slightly more than a “20 Cent” O-Ring.
Not with the Treaty in place. 30 minutes to touchdown
You bet ... may God be with them.
20 cent????
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