Cockpit view of Space Shuttle Landing

[Tiger]

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[Space]

Safety tip: open curtains, turn on headlights.

[Derring]

This may be kinda silly, but I watched the landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia in an employee viewing area at Godard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD. As an employee of a NASA contractor, I received this:
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Contents of the letter:
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Grown man still has this.

[Trouble4u]

Very cool Derring, If I had it, I'd be proud of it too.

[Wailwulf]

"God, this is fun."

"Yeah, it is awesome."

[Big_Fred]

I don't have anything that cool to show.

Seeing that reminded me of a part of my childhood. My father was a Professor of Electrical Engineering and spent a sabbatical in Houston in 1970-71. He worked on the early autopilot system of the shuttle at that time.

I went to classes with the astronaut's children and I can remember seeing the Apollo 11 exhibits. I ran with scissors and cut the crap out of my upper lip.

[SNA2007]

Essentially a very high flameout approach jet aircraft will do. Keep energy state high, speed brakes out, flare, de-energize, touchdown.