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Space Shuttle Atlantis Landing Live Thread (11/27/09 9:45 am est)
11/26/09 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 11/26/2009 5:14:45 PM PST by KevinDavis

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To: All

Actually, the website coverage trails ‘live’ by about 30 seconds or so, not 1 min or more.


21 posted on 11/27/2009 5:54:15 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: markman46; stylecouncilor

I’m up. And up for it. Looks like a beautiful day in Florida.


22 posted on 11/27/2009 5:58:04 AM PST by onedoug
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To: ETL

watching the feed now!!


23 posted on 11/27/2009 6:03:36 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: markman46

41 minutes till landing


24 posted on 11/27/2009 6:04:23 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: NautiNurse; tiredoflaundry

Weather for landing is PERFECT- not a cloud in our sky!

It’s coming from the south today so I may not hear the sonic booms..


25 posted on 11/27/2009 6:06:27 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: londonfog

If you’re not into what it takes to prepare for a long term mission to Mars where water once flowed in abundance, hence sedimantary rock, hence to possible incorporation therein of fossil material then I guess living in a third world Barryworld is what you’re otherwise about.

I say press on. “Our fate cries out!”


26 posted on 11/27/2009 6:20:41 AM PST by onedoug
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To: SE Mom

CanCun is going to have a beautiful shot of Atlantis since it’s coming from the south.


27 posted on 11/27/2009 6:24:20 AM PST by AGreatPer (Impeach Obama!)
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To: markman46

Interesting remark I just heard on the live feed: At about 20 minutes to go before touchdown, the Shuttle was STILL traveling at ~16,000 per hour, approximately 44 miles above the Earth! When it was attached to the Space Station, apprx 240 miles above the surface, it was moving at ~18,000 per hour (~5 miles per second). The brakes will begin to slam on when it hits the atmosphere. Must be a terrifying moment on-board at that point.


28 posted on 11/27/2009 6:25:05 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: onedoug
to Mars where water once flowed in abundance, hence sedimentary rock

Sedimentary layers can also be laid down by wind-blown sediments and other non-water-related processes.

29 posted on 11/27/2009 6:29:35 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: londonfog; All

Funny I see you in threads like this, but nowhere else... Luddite..


30 posted on 11/27/2009 6:33:38 AM PST by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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To: onedoug; All

Indeed...


31 posted on 11/27/2009 6:34:23 AM PST by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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To: ETL

I think they expect it to happen, with all the training.


32 posted on 11/27/2009 6:34:35 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: londonfog

fog, indeed.


33 posted on 11/27/2009 6:35:31 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: markman46

8 and 1/2 minutes till landing


34 posted on 11/27/2009 6:37:23 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Traveling at Mach 30 now. Holly buckets.


35 posted on 11/27/2009 6:37:40 AM PST by AGreatPer (Impeach Obama!)
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To: AGreatPer; All

I see the shuttle!!!


36 posted on 11/27/2009 6:38:05 AM PST by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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To: markman46

in view


37 posted on 11/27/2009 6:38:27 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: AGreatPer
Mach 3 not 30.

Mach 2 now.

38 posted on 11/27/2009 6:39:07 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: A.A. Cunningham; All

I don’t care what people say... The Shuttle is not a piece a crap...


39 posted on 11/27/2009 6:40:16 AM PST by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Just heard the boom here in south central FL as it re-entered the atmosphere.


40 posted on 11/27/2009 6:40:54 AM PST by twin2
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