Columbia passed over Point Arena, California (I live here and heard it--damn the cloud cover!) and burned up over Texas. It would seem it was descending. -----Original Message----- From: seesat-l-bounces+paulgrace=lookoutranch.com@satobs.org [mailto:seesat-l-bounces+paulgrace=lookoutranch.com@satobs.org] On Behalf Of Dale Ireland Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:22 To: 'Roger' Cc: 'SeeSat-L' Subject: RE: Shuttle landing path Gong! The policy was in effect for years before that. Also the Columbia WAS ascending but it wasn't in a high inclination orbit . Dale > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger [mailto:roger.in.eugene@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:10 AM > To: Dale Ireland > Cc: SeeSat-L > Subject: Re: Shuttle landing path > > I think after Columbia, they tried to avoid flying over the > US on re-entry. > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Dale Ireland > <direland@drdale.com> wrote: > > Why did the shuttle almost always land on the ascending leg of its > > orbit rather than the descending which gives the whole > country a great view? > > > > Dale > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seesat-l mailing list > > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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