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From: paulc@hp-lsd.HP.COM (Paul Carroll)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Atlantis is home!
Message-ID: <9090001@hp-lsd.HP.COM>
Date: 13 May 89 19:02:54 GMT
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< By the way, did those of you who were at the landing notice that you could
< hear the Shuttle really well?  It's usually very hard to hear.

	I presume you mean the 2 sonic booms?  They were rather loud,
	but seemed normal given all other sonic booms I've heard.
	(Lucky and didn't even know it :-)

	By the way, can anyone inform me as to why there are 2 sonic
	booms, and not just one, from the shuttle?  Is this due to
	deceleration from Mach 5 such that the wave from Mach 5
	and one from Mach 1 (or so) arrive at the ground at the same
	time?  Just wondering, but there didn't seem to be any
	direction for the booms.  They just seemed to occur together.

	As far as how the landing went, it was rather confusing to see
	the shuttle turning in the East and coming in overhead.  I
	still expected a crosswind landing and couldn't figure out
	how the shuttle was going to make it's final lefthand turn
	(which it didn't, after all).  Still, it looked real good going
	by almost directly overhead.  

	Also, given there were only some 30,000 people at the landing,
	it must be a real bear when a few 100,000 people show up.
	I sat in the traffic jam for about 1.5 hours :-(  Boy, did it
	get warm.

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