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Indeed it does! Finally managed to depart the ISS and end up sitting on the runway at KSC.

Thanks for the comments, I've flown 'up and down' missions so I'm (almost!) happy with re-entry although I've yet to hit the runway...closest so far was a couple of miles short. I'm happy to be ending up in Florida but need to work on it. Looking forward to the repeat flight tomorrow and more...

Hi All, Today marked the first STS mission I have flown which not only managed to rendezvous with the ISS but I also managed to manually dock. I also have more than enough fuel to actually get back down again too. Feeling quite chuffed with myself and all the wife could say was 'That's nice...

Tommy, Cheers for the advice. I've just had a practice and managed a RInc of 0.52deg. Previously when I've tried to use yaw to adjust I've either been too cute with it or too soon, the speed advice of 4.5k m/s works a treat.

Hi All, I've been using Orbiter for a few days now and am more than happy getting the shuttle off the pad, into orbit and down again...well, usually within 20km or so of KSC...*cough*close enough. For my last few flights I've been working on an RV with the ISS. I believe I'm launching in a...

Hello there, I've recently downloaded Orbiter 2010 and how on earth (no pun intended!) did I survive before that? I'm really enjoying orbiter, the 'getting up and staying up' isn't a problem but the 'getting down where you want to' is! Looking forward to some more reading alongside good ol'...