STS121 - LANDING DISCOVERY

STS121 - LANDING DISCOVERY
STS-121 Discovery/ 18th International Space Station Flight ULF1.1
Launch Pad: 39B
Launched: July 4, 2006
Launch Time: 2:38 p.m. EDT
Landing: July 17, 2006
Landing Time: 9:14 a.m. EDT
Duration: 12 days, 18 hours, 37 minutes, 54 seconds
Orbital Insertion Altitude: 122 nautical miles
Orbit Inclination: 51.60°

Category:

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Tags:

• STS
• 121
• DISCOVERY
• LANDING
• SPACE
• SHUTTLE

[calicospore]

i was there for the landing at the strip in the VIP area :D

[ne0heavymetal]

:D cool

[jjjazzycraig]

i do this 10 times a day on my flight sim...it is NOT hard.

[alkito]

You are right. I've heard the sonic booms from the ground and they're usually about a second apart. I don't know why here they were 3 seconds apart But im pretty sure the audio on the video was from a mic on the ground.

[NoIce33]

Well, of course :) Guess I was confused by the fact that the picture at that time was Pilot's View... Didn't think that audio was from ground.

Still one strange thing: the sonic booms should be about 0.5 s apart. The one at 0:16 seems to be double boom but what the heck is the one at 0:13?

[alkito]

The two bangs are Sonic Booms. They're caused by shock wave generated by any vehicle thats is traveling faster than the speed of sound.

[NoIce33]

Does anyone know wha are these two bangs at 00:13 and 00:16? They seem to occur in every STS landing.

[tegoblue]

Beautiful and moving. I saw the first shuttle landing on tv and it made me cry. What was the UFO that prevented this flight from landing earlier?

[robertparmar]

i wish that we in the united kingdom had nasa tv

as i have to see it on the internet.

cool video clip

[BigBill783]

Yeah the approach is about 7x steeper than an commercial airliner--this thing comes in at about 19-20 deg slope-whereas a commerical airliner would be no more than 3 deg glideslople

[hyperthreaded]

The approach is really unbelievably steep, and the speed looks breaknecky. But it works out well every time :-)