Heads up Shuttle landing NOW

[jjjnettie]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[jjjnettie]

Lovely, a text book landing.
Hope someone managed to see it.

[erick]

Missed it by................that much! :sadeyes:

[jjjnettie]

LOL I only found out 6 minutes before touch down.

[DavidU]

Yep, watched it thanx jjj.
Odd noise of it venting gasses.I have never heard it before, but it showed in the IR camera.

[mswhin63]

Just caught it 1 minute before landing thankyou for the post :)

[Spanrz]

Venting gasses is normal Dave.

Something is racking in my brain about it's what's left over from the "reaction control" stuff (fuel for little jets that fire to align the shuttle).

Great landing. Though as expected, at the exact moment in landing of the shuttle, it coincides with that weather curse (when buying a new scope-the clouds come in type of thing).
We got torrential rain, a massive lightning show and guess what, 20 minutes after landing it was clear....Sheesh!
Though the only thing that the weather wasn't bad this time, the shuttle wasn't tracked to come near Melbourne on it's deorbit, WA and NT would have got a good show though.

[CptVipeR]

I watched it from deorbit burn right through to wheels stop and for a bit longer as they were doing checks/proceedures.

Was great footage once the cameras picked it up on approach.
Will have to set a reminder for the next launch.