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  • Atlantis lands safely in Florida

    09/21/2006 4:10:09 AM PDT · by Aussie Dasher · 14 replies · 489+ views
    news.com.au ^ | 21 September 2006
    THE US space shuttle Atlantis landed safely at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 8.21pm AEST today after the first construction mission to the International Space Station since the 2003 Columbia disaster. Atlantis and its crew of six touched down before dawn following a 12-day mission that saw astronauts complete three spacewalks and install a new solar power module on the half-built, $US100-billion orbiting outpost. Astronauts fired the spaceship's braking rockets while the shuttle flew upside down and backward over the Indian Ocean and Atlantis made its fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere as temperatures outside the shuttle reached nearly...
  • Breaking: Jet Blue emergency landing, Long Beach, CA (UPDATE: Plane Landed Safely)

    09/21/2005 4:21:43 PM PDT · by kingu · 1,493 replies · 67,208+ views
    KABC Channel 7, live broadcast
    A Jet Blue aircraft just did a low altitude flyby of Long Beach airport after reporting some concern with their forward gear. The television helicopter caught an image of it - the gear is turned sideways and tilted. Aircraft is heading out towards the ocean to drop fuel, will turn around, and attempt a 'soft field' landing, keeping the nose up as long as possible.