bad landing video

Since there was only one response to my earlier post...
here's a video of the STS-3 landing..correct me if I'm wrong but
doesn't the landing gear get deployed 19 seconds before touchdown?
Counting from the moment the gear doors open to touchdown, it's only 7
seconds...then the nose almost is rotated down but then comes up
again.. WTF??
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/fe.../sts03_qt.html
seems like this was a "close call"

"ed kyle" wrote in message
ups.com...
....
The rotation problem was pilot error, aggrevated by the high
touchdown velocity. ..

I recollect analysis showing the nose gear touchdown rate was close
to the design limits. Does anybody else remember that?

-- Joe D.

"ed kyle" wrote in message
ups.com...

"During nose gear slapdown, the vehicle pitched up to around
6 degrees after having been down to -3 degrees pitch. This occurred
because the pilot was preventing premature nosewheel contact.
Subsequent analysis has shown the vehicle responded essentially
as analysis predicted and as seen on the Ames simulator, both prior
to and after the mission, in which nearly identical responses
occurred."

- Ed Kyle

That was a bit scary - how close (if at all) does anyone reckon they were to
having it get away from them there?