With weather conditions still up in the air here at Kennedy Space Center, Atlantis will be landing in California today.....which means I need to pack my bags!! We'll be helping out with landing operations for the week.
The deorbit burn ignition time will be 10:24:41 a.m. EDT. The twin braking rockets will fire for two minutes and 36 seconds, slowing the shuttle by about 307 mph. The deorbit burn will drop Atlantis out of its 303 x 160 nautical mile orbit and put the shuttle into a trajectory for entry over the Pacific Ocean and bound for landing at the Mojave Desert military base. Once near Edwards, the shuttle will make a 200-degree left-overhead turn to align with Runway 22 for touchdown at 11:39 a.m. EDT.
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