STS-128 Landing at Edwards Air Force Base 11 Sept 2009 (Sonic Boom)
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last flight for a while - these guys have more character n their little fingers than the entire body of those who shut down our space expeditions. Hope to see it again in my lifetime.
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How do they Navigate from space to a point on earth?
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It really glides like a brick
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Hats up to those who are doing a phenomenon Intelligent Job up there..my daughter watching this for a few minutes says.. they must be very close to Jesus!!!...:)) God Bless all of you out there and yes Jesus our Saviour is near so call on Him anytime!!!
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Interesting - the HUD goes yellow when the heading is precisely zeroed! First time I've seen that.
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@chillaxer1993 This actually is not so - the air in front is compressed tremendously - it can't get out of the way in time because the shuttle is moving so fast. The compressed air heats up, like in a bicycle pump vigorously operated. There really isn't enough air in the upper atmosphere to create much heat from friction, and by the time the SS gets low, it's not going that fast.
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awesome landing after a 5.7 million-mile flight!
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heard this when i was in my house and sounded like a basketball hit the roof of the house twice
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that is so cool
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bukakee1 2 years ago 8
The shuttle has great speed while in space because otherwise it will not stay in orbit.
To land, they need to reduce speed and "fall" back to Earth by turning the shuttle around and firing the engines. They takes fuel. They don't have very much fuel left so the de-orbit burn doesn't slow them very much. Instead they let the atmosphere slow them down.
The reason it gets hot is simply put all that energy that is the shuttle's speed (momentum) being transfered to the atmosphere.
mkarnerfors 2 years ago 4