Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Atlantis is home! Message-ID: <3240@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 9 May 89 16:53:00 GMT References: <272@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> <779@ivucsb.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Distribution: usa Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 20 In article <779@ivucsb.UUCP> todd@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) writes: >I went all the way out to Edwards, and had a lot of fun waiting for >and watching the shuttle land. However, I was disappointed that the >crowd does not get to be closer to the actual landing site. We could >barely see it when it landed, although the view when it flew over us >was fantastic! I suspect that they had you positioned for a landing on runway 17 (that's certainly where the convoy was poised). The switch to 22 was made within 20 (15, even?) minutes of landing. Really unfortunate for those that made the trip. Take solace in the fact that the camera views that NASA Select provided weren't very good either...."There it is, coming down. It's almost ready to touch the pavement. Whoops, there's a building in the way. Oh I see it rolling again. Oh, now it just went behind that hanger,...", etc. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University