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Endeavour to the ISS (STS 127)

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    #122
    lord lucan
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    Always a magnificent sight seeing the orbiter glide home and another mission successfully completed.


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    Ricky91t
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    lord lucan wrote: »
    Always a magnificent sight seeing the orbiter glide home and another mission successfully completed.

    +1 to that

    A perfect landing and a great job :D


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    Beeker
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    lord lucan wrote: »
    Always a magnificent sight seeing the orbiter glide home and another mission successfully completed.
    Wheels stop Endeavour! God speed Discovery Aug 25th!


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    #125
    ynotdu
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    could not watch nasa tv for the return,managed to see the three minuates of sky news coverage sonic booms and all!
    makes no diffrience how often you see it the skill of the pilot landing it NEVER fails to awe inspire!

    imagine after the de-orbit burn those guys can glide the unpowered brick all the way safely to the ground!:confused:

    final thougts on this thread was anybody ever in right place at right time to see a landing?did the parachute ever fail on landing?

    C,ya all for the projected Aug launch,were once again i may go off on all sorts of tangents :p;)
    Beeker i thought you might have enjoyed the youtube of the sts1 mission i posted earlior on this thread,since you were naughtily listening to it via hidden earphone at school!(imagine Young and Crippen had ejector seats!)
    i really enjoyed all the storys and nearly all of the input on this thread!

    Godspeed until August!


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    #126
    Beeker
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    ynotdu wrote: »
    final thougts on this thread was anybody ever in right place at right time to see a landing?did the parachute ever fail on landing?
    No never got to see a landing, would love to get the chance.
    The parachute never failed to deploy. It was first used in May 1992 on Endeavours first flight. STS-49 the 47th shuttle flight. They were having problems with the breaks and even had a tyre blowout on a previous landing, so they decided to add the parachute to aid in the slowing down on the runway.
    On an historical note one of three parachutes failed on the landing of Apollo 15 on Aug 7 1971.
    ap15s7142217.jpg


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    Mr Benevolent
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    On another note, at launch Apollo 6 vibrated so badly (pogo oscillation) that an abort would have been triggered had there been astronauts on board. One minute later two of the second stage engines cut off with no warning and the controllers came within seconds of using the self destruct. It limped into orbit and had no problems after that :D


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    #128
    ynotdu
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    Beeker wrote: »
    No never got to see a landing, would love to get the chance.
    The parachute never failed to deploy. It was first used in May 1992 on Endeavours first flight. STS-49 the 47th shuttle flight. They were having problems with the breaks and even had a tyre blowout on a previous landing, so they decided to add the parachute to aid in the slowing down on the runway.
    On an historical note one of three parachutes failed on the landing of Apollo 15 on Aug 7 1971.
    ap15s7142217.jpg

    Beeker i know i said it was my final thoughts,but what an awesome photo,ty for that:)
    also i had thought ALL shuttles had used a parachute!
    as ever You are a fountain of knowledge on the sts programme,You should be the Mod specific to the the shuttle and its history:)
    your posts are always educational and accurate!


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    #129
    ynotdu
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    Confab wrote: »
    On another note, at launch Apollo 6 vibrated so badly (pogo oscillation) that an abort would have been triggered had there been astronauts on board. One minute later two of the second stage engines cut off with no warning and the controllers came within seconds of using the self destruct. It limped into orbit and had no problems after that :D


    Hi Confab.i did not know that either but ty:)

    I know from the many documentrys during the 40th anniversary of the first moonlanding that Apoll 12 was struck by lightning and the spacecraft and ground control lost all data.
    the Astronauts had the balls not to abort,when they rebooted the computer all returned to normal!
    tempted to ask that this thread be turned into a history of spaceflight one with people who were alive at the time of each event sharing their memories and the facts.Wikipedia not always that accurate:eek:

    but i best not or i be shot at dawn:D

    Be great if someone with the knowledge did start a History of spaceflight thread!
    i especioly like the were i was during whatever space event happened posts:)
    cheers guys


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