Discovery is back home - Landing procedure
December 23rd, 2006 by KostakissSpace shuttle Discovery has landed safely in Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is definitely an adventurous journey from the very first second that the thrusters ignite. An article about how Discovery lands is presented in BBC. The procedure seems pretty much easy and controllable, but consider the speeds of around Mach 30 and that a small deviation from the main plan may be disastrous.
Source and photograph from BBC.
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December 25th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
It is pity that the new MS Flight Simulator X does not include a space shuttle to let us practice with this technique. Nevertheless, Nasa offers a flight simulator on their website (but only for the shuttle’s launch):
http://pao.ksc.nasa.gov/sim/index2.html
December 25th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
I saw the description of the landing procedure at BBC. It is amazing and makes you go “WOW…” of what science can do. Having a nice trip around the world (in reality) it is far from interesting!
I agree with Filippos. MS Flight Simulator X doesn’t help but I will check the NASA link!