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Re: Discovery STS 41-D / A new orbiter sets sail
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Re: Discovery STS 41-D / A new orbiter sets sail
« Reply #205 on: 12/31/2011 10:40 am »
PAO: … altitude 5,000 feet, four miles from the end of the runway… altitude 3,500… range three miles… altitude 2,000 feet, range 1,200 feet… gear is down… altitude 300 feet, just 800 feet from the end of the runway… and the main gear down… nose gear securely down. Main gear touchdown at mission elapsed time of six days, 56 minutes, four seconds… nose gear down at six days, 56 minutes, 16 seconds.

Hartsfield: Wheels stop.

CapCom: Roger that, wheels stop. Welcome home.


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Re: Discovery STS 41-D / A new orbiter sets sail
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« Reply #216 on: 12/31/2011 11:32 am »
Mike Mullane “Riding Rockets” (p.192): We began our postflight appearances. (…) I had attended an earlier event where Steve Hawley had been introduced by the NASA administrator as “Sally Ride’s husband.” Talk about living in a cold shadow. Hawley’s marriage to Sally had put him on the far side of the moon. When officials in his hometown of Salina, Kansas, told Steve they were putting a sign on a nearby highway proclaiming his astronaut status, Steve had joked with us, “It’ll probably say, ‘Hometown-in-law of Sally Ride’.” Judy, too, had to walk in Sally’s shadow. At several appearances she was referred to as Sally Ride. So I was happy to be “Mike Mullane” at my Albuquerque homecoming instead of “an astronaut who flew in space with the husband of Sally Ride.”


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« Reply #217 on: 12/31/2011 11:43 am »
Some more photos in high-resolution on L2:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=12008.0

And last but not least: The "Mystery Bird" ;D

Collecting shuttle photos from different sources sometimes can lead to funny results...

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« Reply #218 on: 12/31/2011 07:39 pm »
What a beautiful, graceful bird.















I meant Discovery  ;) :D

Thanks again Ares67!
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« Reply #219 on: 12/31/2011 07:50 pm »
Mike Mullane “Riding Rockets” (p.192): We began our postflight appearances. (…) I had attended an earlier event where Steve Hawley had been introduced by the NASA administrator as “Sally Ride’s husband.” Talk about living in a cold shadow. Hawley’s marriage to Sally had put him on the far side of the moon. When officials in his hometown of Salina, Kansas, told Steve they were putting a sign on a nearby highway proclaiming his astronaut status, Steve had joked with us, “It’ll probably say, ‘Hometown-in-law of Sally Ride’.” Judy, too, had to walk in Sally’s shadow. At several appearances she was referred to as Sally Ride. So I was happy to be “Mike Mullane” at my Albuquerque homecoming instead of “an astronaut who flew in space with the husband of Sally Ride.”

Well at least he (Steve Hawley) had a sense of humor about it. But then this was the astronaut who could joke about not being high enough off of the ground after MECO when the engines aborted during the first launch attempt  ;D
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