Space Shuttle Atlantis Landing Live Thread (05/24/09 10:09 AM)

05/22/09 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Third time a charm???

[txroadkill]

Well, for a Reuters’ feed I’d say that was close enough. At least it didn’t have doctered pictures of the burka lady crying.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

You know you watch too much NASATV when you use the terms “nominal” and “I concur”.

LOL. Commencing Sunday Brunch in T-minus 918 seconds...

[NautiNurse]

Reuters should have stayed with “Landed on Earth.”

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Nice landing. It’s easy to forget the amazing effort and amount of things that have to come together just right because it goes right so often.

[txroadkill]

LoL

[americanophile]

...details, details.

[NautiNurse]

Now Canada.com has picked up the bad feed. Reuters hasn't made the correction yet, approaching an hour later. tsk tsk

[MinuteGal]

I was on the edge of my chair watching the landing with a mixture of excitement, awe and pride (as opposed to hope, fear and change, LOL).

I just wished the cockpit camera hadn't come across the TV feed with fatal interference. I would have loved to see a split screen with the outside landing being shown concurrently with the view from the camera inside the plane's "windshield".

But I'm just thrilled to see such a beautiful event at all. Congratulations to the courageous and adept crew on this memorable Memorial Day weekend.

Leni

[MindBender26]

Idiots!

I’m in NY

Stay dry!

:)

[2Jedismom]

You know what? I finally got high speed internet. This was awesome watching on the high speed internet!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Never heard a thing here.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Its a big ship too...been up close on a visit to Edwards a few years ago.

[Bernard Marx]

It was a serious house-rattling double “boom” here in Camarillo. The blinds on my windows swung in a good 6 inches. At first I thought it was a quake but the significance of 2 booms quickly registered. Glad they’re home safe after a successful mission.

[lainie]

There were 50-60 cars gathered around EAFB’s south gate trying to see what we could. It was neat.

[DoughtyOne]

Now that’s funny.

[al baby]

Com check

[A.A. Cunningham]

Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California, completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas

[klimeckg]

How do they transport the Shuttle back to Florida?

[klimeckg]

I googled the question. They fly back on a 747.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It’s a very specially rigged 747.