Fwd: Space Shuttle Atlantis landing Monday night

From: Jess Minton (pd.minton@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Jul 22 2001 - 20:08:32 PDT


>Hope you guys consider a Space Shuttle the ultimate MV....
>I'm not sure if we will be able to see Atlantis land late Monday night
>(11:30 +/- CDT) or early Tuesday morning (0100 Hrs +/- CDT) but if you
>have never seen the vapor trail and the burn of re-entry it is really
>something else to see.
>Nasa shows their landing route at this website:
>http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/groundtracs/
>You can see the 1130 Landing takes them over the lower Gulf of Mexico and
>the second landing comes in over the Rio Grande Valley, NASA says if they
>miss the 1130 landing the next Orbit brings them back to Florida at 0113 Hrs.
>You have really never seen anything like it if it is visible...
>Jess



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