Monday, August 08, 2005

Discovery Landing Pushed Back

This is a good story on Discovery from Space.com

I know we are all anxious for the shuttle to return safely to earth, but this will likely be the last jaunt into orbit for some of these astronauts, so I'm sure they will not mind the stay too terribly much.
"We were delayed four days coming home," said astronaut John Herrington, who served as mission specialist aboard Endeavour during STS-113, NASA's last shuttle to land at KSC. "[The delay] is a chance to sit back and really take a deep breath to look out the window."
I've talked to my my friend Charity the other day about the landing. More than likely this landing will be just fine. We've only lost one shuttle on landing, and it was because of a damaged heat shield. The thoroughly checked out this shield, and it is good. Of course, launches and landings are probably one of the most dangerous parts of any space mission.

There are several landing opportunities tomorrow.
There are 2 Kennedy Space Center (KSC) landing opportunities tomorrow.
There are also 2 opportunities at Edwards Air Force Base in California tomorrow, as well as 2 opportunities at Northrup Strip at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. That is also the preference of landing.

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