Sunday, May 24, 2009

Headin' to California

NASA has scrubbed the Shuttle landing attempt for Florida. The next attempt will be around 1140 ET for Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Update from Space dot com:
There are two landing options available on orbit 197 - the first at Edwards Air Force Base at 11:39 a.m. EDT (1539 GMT) and a second opportunity, just nine minutes later, at the Kennedy Space Center at 11:48 a.m. EDT (1548 GMT). The de-orbit burn for landing at Edwards would occur at approx. 10:24 a.m. EDT (1424 GMT); the de-orbit burn for a Florida landing would be about sixteen minutes later at 10:40 a.m. EDT (1440 GMT).
Update, Update: Florida has been completely ruled out for today, so if the shuttle is going to land today it will be at Edwards. If there is no landing today then it is quite possible that White Sands here in NM will be opened for landing.

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