Updates STS-135 Updates

[Chub777]

They're passing the west coast of Florida.

 

[DanM]

The air data probes have been deployed.

 

[Chub777]

5 minutes to landing.

 

[Quick_Nick]

HUD view!

 

[coffeene]

subsonic!

I love the inferred views.

 

[DanM]

The shuttle is subsonic

 

[Chub777]

Shuttle can be seen from KSC!

 

[Quick_Nick]

Woo, sonic booms

 

[DanM]

Field in sight

 

[Quick_Nick]

You're one minute late Atlantis

 

[Alfastar]

it ENDS

 

[Star Voyager]

Farewell to the world's greatest, all-electric flying machine, and hello to a new era of the commercialization of space!

 

[coffeene]

WHEEL STOP!!!!!

 

[Chub777]

Landed. Wheelstop. Atlantis, welcome back! Time for some epic music:

 

[DanM]

Wheel stop. Welcome Home!

 

[Quick_Nick]

Wow, that looked unreal!!

 

[Unstung]

Atlantis has stopped.

 

[Codz]

Magnificent landing!

 

[ky]

Thanks Atlantis!

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I got a pic!!!!!!!!!

 

[DanM]

Does anyone else see irony in this? They were planning for Atlantis to be scrapped in 2008, the first Orbiter to be retired. Of course, time had other plans.