space shuttle landing today
The Space Shuttle Discovery returned to Earth in a fiery early morning dip in the heartland of America Tuesday, concluding a complex space station supply to have a smooth landing in Florida.Running a day late because of weather, Navy Captain Alan G. Poindexter took manual control at a height of about 50,000 feet above the spaceport, guiding the shuttle was a radical turn to the left upper row of runway 33rd.After a steep descent, Captain Poindexter pointed the nose of Discovery prior to the runway, the Air Force Colonel James P. Dutton, the pilot deployed the landing gear and settled in the shuttle tire-smoking touchdown at 9:08 Eastern Time.
"Houston, Discovery, wheels stopped," Captain Poindexter radio after the shuttle rolled to stop.Save fuel and prevent a season high-altitude ice clouds in the northern hemisphere, in favor of a NASA space shuttle back to Florida in a southwest to northeast path to them in the South Pacific, Central America and the Caribbean. But the flight of Discovery, NASA managers approved of the way from northwest to southeast, which has a staff more time for the track, the 15-day space station mission to end the supply. The decision is also the spectators on the road, perhaps a last chance to witness the fiery streak in the shuttle re-entry.Crossing the Canadian coast of Vancouver over Discovery plunged into the American Northwest and the temperature of 3000 degrees flying over Helena, Mont stand., Casper, Wyo. North to Colorado and landed in Florida.
Impending retirement of the shuttle, NASA racing the clock to the greatest extent possible, as the spare parts, equipment and scientific equipment to keep the station operational while the difference at the end of shuttle operations and the U.S. debut of a new generation of rockets to deliver.Discovery's crew of more than 17,000 pounds of scientific instruments and equipment, transport built in the Italian cargo module, which attached to the station the day after the ferry arrived. Mr. Mastracchio and Mr. Anderson were organized in three spacewalks of the transition in 1700 pounds of ammonia tanks for cooling drive system.
"Houston, Discovery, wheels stopped," Captain Poindexter radio after the shuttle rolled to stop.Save fuel and prevent a season high-altitude ice clouds in the northern hemisphere, in favor of a NASA space shuttle back to Florida in a southwest to northeast path to them in the South Pacific, Central America and the Caribbean. But the flight of Discovery, NASA managers approved of the way from northwest to southeast, which has a staff more time for the track, the 15-day space station mission to end the supply. The decision is also the spectators on the road, perhaps a last chance to witness the fiery streak in the shuttle re-entry.Crossing the Canadian coast of Vancouver over Discovery plunged into the American Northwest and the temperature of 3000 degrees flying over Helena, Mont stand., Casper, Wyo. North to Colorado and landed in Florida.
Impending retirement of the shuttle, NASA racing the clock to the greatest extent possible, as the spare parts, equipment and scientific equipment to keep the station operational while the difference at the end of shuttle operations and the U.S. debut of a new generation of rockets to deliver.Discovery's crew of more than 17,000 pounds of scientific instruments and equipment, transport built in the Italian cargo module, which attached to the station the day after the ferry arrived. Mr. Mastracchio and Mr. Anderson were organized in three spacewalks of the transition in 1700 pounds of ammonia tanks for cooling drive system.
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