Author Topic: LIVE: STS-116 - Flight Day 14 - Landing and post flight info (Read 98345 times)

George CA · « **Reply #340 on:** 12/22/2006 11:35 pm »

Beamer looked like he was arguing with Griffin

Stardust9906 · « **Reply #341 on:** 12/22/2006 11:36 pm »

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #342 on:** 12/22/2006 11:37 pm »

Beautiful landing by Roman. Got to see it during my lunch break

Crew taking a look at the underside of the bird. Just beautiful to see her home. Well Gwen we were wrong about the time but we hit the pocket!! Welcome home Discovery!!

marsavian · « **Reply #343 on:** 12/22/2006 11:39 pm »

thanks landofgrey and fwiw I liked your landing vid the best of all

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #344 on:** 12/22/2006 11:41 pm »

Crew saying a few words at the mic

firehawk · « **Reply #345 on:** 12/22/2006 11:41 pm »

sorry i missed all this. Does anyone have a link to the entire landing event? It's incredible this thread - how on earth do you get the cam pics, pdf files, weather reports etc... so quickly? wow!

psloss · « **Reply #346 on:** 12/22/2006 11:42 pm »

LOL -- nice words, but I did laugh at "OK, let's get out of here!"

Stardust9906 · « **Reply #347 on:** 12/22/2006 11:42 pm »

nathan.moeller · « **Reply #348 on:** 12/22/2006 11:42 pm »

Crew boarding the Astrovan for the trip to the crew quarters. And off they go!

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #349 on:** 12/22/2006 11:44 pm »

Great comments from Commander Polansky.

To those that call the orbiter's "its" - listen to the commander

psloss · « **Reply #350 on:** 12/22/2006 11:44 pm »

KSC PAO signing off...the post landing briefing will start as soon as Griffin, Gerst, and Mike Leinbach can make it over to the press center.

jmjawors · « **Reply #351 on:** 12/22/2006 11:45 pm »

Nicholas Patrick was missing. Hope he's doing OK.

northanger · « **Reply #352 on:** 12/22/2006 11:47 pm »

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nathan.moeller - 22/12/2006 6:20 PM

Beautiful landing by Roman. Got to see it during my lunch break Crew taking a look at the underside of the bird. Just beautiful to see her home. Well Gwen we were wrong about the time but we hit the pocket!! Welcome home Discovery!!

Nathan, lol. I'm glad that's all I lost today. Happy they're all home safe & we can all get ready for the next mission.

This site is *so* amazing. Bringing us together so we can share & experience the joy of human spaceflight.

vt_hokie · « **Reply #353 on:** 12/22/2006 11:47 pm »

A White Sands landing would've been interesting, but in retrospect, I'm glad they were able to return to Florida. I'm sure a lot of folks are relieved about that. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

brodo · « **Reply #354 on:** 12/22/2006 11:47 pm »

martynwilliams · « **Reply #355 on:** 12/22/2006 11:48 pm »

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jmjawors - 23/12/2006 12:28 AM

Nicholas Patrick was missing. Hope he's doing OK.

Yeah, likewise. Bruce Buckingham said that he'd gone back to the O&CB with Reiter in the crew transport vehicle (i forget the technical term!)

triddirt · « **Reply #356 on:** 12/22/2006 11:48 pm »

Wrap Up from NTV Commentary. Nice Job folks there. And Post Landing Press Conference coming up

ETEE · « **Reply #357 on:** 12/22/2006 11:49 pm »

Just how wet can Discovery get? They seemed to want to do the handshakes and speech in priority to towing away the shuttle. Couldn't they cover it up?

psloss · « **Reply #358 on:** 12/22/2006 11:52 pm »

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ETEE - 22/12/2006 7:32 PM

Just how wet can Discovery get? They seemed to want to do the handshakes and speech in priority to towing away the shuttle. Couldn't they cover it up?

Always done that way, and probably doesn't make much difference in being ready for tow. The orbiter is usually out on the runway for at least four hours before they start towing it (in this case to OPF Bay 3).

firehawk · « **Reply #359 on:** 12/22/2006 11:52 pm »

anyone know where I can view the entire descending/landing video from just before they enter the earth?