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

[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!