Shuttle landing delayed and change of venue

Landing to occur at Edwards AFB at 3:19pm Eastern Time. That's 8:19am here
in Melbourne, Australia.

On Nov 30, 12:46*pm, "Alan Erskine" wrote:
Landing to occur at Edwards AFB at 3:19pm Eastern Time. *That's 8:19am here
in Melbourne, Australia.

Nominal safe landing at EAFB, a safer landing site than KSC anyways....

M beweerde :
On Nov 30, 12:46*pm, "Alan Erskine" wrote:
Landing to occur at Edwards AFB at 3:19pm Eastern Time. *That's 8:19am here
in Melbourne, Australia.

Nominal safe landing at EAFB, a safer landing site than KSC anyways....

Partially I agree with your statement. But only if the orbiter lands on
runway 33 or 22, not on this temporary runway.
Endeavour had a 'wheel-stop' at about 800 feet from the end of the
runway used yesterday.

The runway used yesterday is at least 3000 feet shorter then the SLF.
(said by the NASA TV narrator during the landing sequence)

Nominal safe landing at EAFB, a safer landing site than KSC anyways....


When you consider that landing at Edwards involves mating the orbiter to
a 747 and then hopping across the USA in multiple hops (only during
good weather), one could dispute the above claim.

Landing at Edwards involves many landings and much more handling of the
orbiter.

"John Doe" wrote in message
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Nominal safe landing at EAFB, a safer landing site than KSC anyways....


When you consider that landing at Edwards involves mating the orbiter to
a 747 and then hopping across the USA in multiple hops (only during
good weather), one could dispute the above claim.

Landing at Edwards involves many landings and much more handling of the
orbiter.

But transporting the orbiter from Edwards to KSC does not endanger
*astronauts* and NASA always measures shuttle safety relative to how safe it
is for the astronauts. It seems that the media, and the public in general,
don't care much about anyone at NASA dying on the job unless they're
astronauts. :-(

Jeff
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beb - To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, reality has an anti-Ares I bias.

On 01 Dec 2008 M wrote in

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On Nov 30, 12:46*pm, "Alan Erskine"
wrote:
Landing to occur at Edwards AFB at 3:19pm Eastern Time. *That's
8:19am
here
in Melbourne, Australia.

Nominal safe landing at EAFB, a safer landing site than KSC
anyways....

Was it just me or was the landing gear deployed very late this time? I
know it's never early but that seemed very close to touchdown.

--
Graham Drabble
http://www.drabble.me.uk/

"Graham Drabble" wrote in message
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Was it just me or was the landing gear deployed very late this time? I
know it's never early but that seemed very close to touchdown.

I thought so too, but it might have been the camera angle.