BA-BOOM!

[vanillafluffy]

Just heard the familiar sonic boom---the shuttle is back.

I'll only hear it one more time---hopefully.

I'm going to miss it, even if it does set off every dog in the neighborhood.

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Comments

[kukkurkurat.livejournal.com]

Well, at least the neighborhood will have less nervous dogs... But I miss hearing about the launches (via radio), as well. Damn-damn the cutbacks.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

And When I remember that our space race was funded mainly to keep ahead of the Soviets, and now we're dependant on the Russians---I *should* be happy that we're all friends now, but part of me is shaking my head in disbelief.

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[thru-the-blinds.livejournal.com]

Just curious -- I've seen the shuttle take off several times (on TV, not in person) but I've never seen it LAND.

How, exactly, does it do that? I mean, in the ocean or at Cape Canaveral or what?

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

"Splashdown" landings were from the old Apollo days. One of the things that made the shuttle so great was its reuseability. It actually lands on a runway at KSC (Kennedy Space Center) or in California if the weather here is bad. It never had to make a water landing, and I'm not sure it could. I know there are a couple other designated emergency landing sites, but again, we never had to use them.

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[thru-the-blinds.livejournal.com]

Thank you for edu-ma-cating me. I started thinking about it and realized I'd never seen the shuttle actually land!