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The crew is beginning the post-landing procedures on Endeavour |
Mission Complete |
TOUCHDOWN |
Less than two minutes to touchdown as Endeavour continues in the sweeping turn |
The crew has been given a "go" for normal deployment of the drag chute after main gear touchdown. |
Seven minutes to touchdown. Air data probes are being deployed from the shuttle's nose to feed air speed, |
Endeavour is 20 miles in altitude, traveling at 4,000 mph. |
Now 11 minutes from touchdown. Mission Control computes Endeavour will land 2,000 feet down the runway at 205 knots. |
Endeavour's speed has slowed to Mach 11 as the shuttle begins its third of four banks during descent. |
Now 15 minutes from landing. The shuttle is 35 miles up and 800 miles from the runway. |
Endeavour is now 39 miles altitude, traveling at 12,750 mph and 1,200 miles from the landing site. |
The shuttle is performing the first roll-reversal. |
Endeavour is 2,300 miles from the runway, traveling with a speed of 15,700 mph. |
The shuttle is crossing the equator going Mach 23 |
Endeavour is beginning the first of four banks to scrub off speed as it plunges into the atmosphere. |
The shuttle is streaking 59 miles over the South Pacific, now passing to the west of French Polynesia. |
ENTRY INTERFACE. Endeavour's thermal protection system is feeling heat beginning to build as the orbiter enters top fringes of atmosphere |
Now 40 minutes to touchdown. |
