Home Again: Six Astronauts Celebrate Shuttle Landing

[jeyaraman]

".....We didn’t see anything until about 10,000 feet,” said Lindsey, a four-time shuttle flyer. “I’d never gone through weather like that on real shuttle landing but it’s not a big deal....."<br /><br /><br />The above is an extract from the following link<br />http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060717_sts121_crewresponse.html<br /><br />does the above statement, from the commander about landing, mean that the shuttle was flying on remote control?<br /><br />thanks for any clarification.

 

[vandivx]

if you mean the reference to the 'real shuttle landing', he probably meant you get visibility like that on trenagers but not during real flights<br /><br />vanDivX <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[jeyaraman]

Thanks both of you, <br /><br />did Divx mean 'like during in training, in shuttle simulator'?<br /><br />

 

[alokmohan]

THE MATTER REQUIRES CLARIFICATION.WE MAY NOT GUESS.

 

[vandivx]

yeah, I can confirm it <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />I am not sure if 'trenager' is really English word or if the spelling is right, better term to use is flight training 'simulator' I suppose<br /><br />I am not any expert on these things but it seems the shuttle pilots are doing so much traning in simulators, especially now that they've been grounded for so long, that one day a pilot will fail to realize he is flying for real now and abort the mission in mid flight and ask for repeat of the simulator test LOL<br /><br />vanDivX <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[jeyaraman]

Thanks for all your replies

 

[3488]

It was a great return. Whilst I have doubts about the ISS, I do think that the Shuttle is worth continuing, particularly as the shuttle has proven to be a good research facility in her own right (Spacelab, Earth Observations, Microgravity, space based Astronomy, etc).<br /><br />Lets hope that Atlantis will perform just as well, for the next mission. A return to Hubble must be done soon as well. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>