This is an amazing still picture of the touchdown of Atlantis at Edwards Air Force Base, California.Space Shuttle Missions get very little coverage on the BBC or any other media for that matter unless of course it blows up!
NASA Television is a superb site for watching live and recorded pictures of the missions. I watched Atlantis STS-117 take off live and tonight watched the landing live. The mission is a bit special because I was able to 'see' in the sky the ISS and watch the launch live on it's journey to the ISS. It became very 'real' so I was able to follow the mission. I began to feel a little bit like the Apollo 11 days where you realise that technology is wonderful and children need to be aware of what is happening out there in space.
I watched Mission Control bring down this Space Craft from a speed of 17,000mph in half an hour to glide gracefully to a standstill in a desert in California and it's not on a PSP2!
Here are some statistics: 22/6/07
Official Landing Times Main gear touchdown:20:49:38 p.m. BST
Nose gear touchdown:20:49:49 p.m.
EDT Wheels stop: 20:50:48 p.m.
EDT Total miles: 5.8 million
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