Source= http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/050805landingtracks/
Posted on 08/07/2005 2:43:31 PM PDT by devane617
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- Astronauts completed flight control checks aboard space shuttle Discovery and practiced landing on a computer simulator as they made final preparations Sunday for their return to Earth. Flight director LeRoy Cain said the weather forecast looked good for Monday's predawn landing at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Cain said he and everyone else on the entry team at Mission Control were both excited and anxious about Discovery's return, and were not dwelling on Columbia's catastrophic descent 2 1/2 years ago. "We're looking forward, we're not looking back," he said with less than 24 hours to go before touchdown. Earlier Sunday morning, Discovery commander Eileen Collins observed: "It's time to come home and keep working on getting the shuttle better and ready to fly in the future again."
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Anyone else notice how this Shuttle Commander has stated several times that she is ready to come home? In all the years I have watched the space program I have never heard a astronaut, other than Apollo 13 crew, state they wanted to leave space. On the contrary they almost always want to exten the mission. I heard Collins say they other morning from space in almost a tearful voice how much she missed her family and was ready to come home.
FReeper Re-entry Observers - Man your positions!
Wow, great pic of the torn insulation below the window.
What time is the landing ?
Source= http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/050805landingtracks/
Is she the same idiot who was whining about Earth's deforestation last week? Affirmative Action in action, if that's the case.
Someone should start a live-thread at the appropriate time, if any of you are on it... Please ping me.
As far as Collin's and crew "wanting" to come home, I took that as a positive that is; "We have no concerns over the trip home, we are ready." There are other factors that made this trip a little less glamourous than usual, I didn't think Collin's comments were 'unusual', all of that having been said, OF COURSE tensions will be running high.
-Watching the Press wring hands on C-span now.
Thanks, so that will be 12:45am my time. Great.
Idiots don't become astronauts.
Interesting choice of time of day and approach. In the unlikely event that something did go wrong, it would provide some grist for the tin foil crowd.
Most inconvenient for Alaskans. The hot part of the reentry track will be in darkness, and won't be visible from anywhere except boats and maybe Costa Rica. Too bad because we haven't had a lot of opportunities to see these reentries at night.
Right over Habana. The Cubans will hear it anyway.
They might even hear it at Gitmo. Excellent chance to remind those few guests staying there that America is launching spaceships and going to the moon while they are trying to overrun villages and scare storeclerks on the way to work.
Landing 20 miles from my house, I think I'll hear it too. ;-)
Man, an hour and a half of flying to do after toilet deactivation. Hope the TSA doesn't hold them up on the ground too long after landing.
We're counting on you to verify all reports. The Shuttle has never been this far north. Neither has the ISS.
You can take the idiot into space, but you can't take the space out of the idiot's brain.
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