STS30_v_c_o_TPMBK (S30-(S)-123)
“STS-30 --- The Space Shuttle Atlantis glides toward a landing on the Mojave Desert after spending just over four full days in space. Aboard the spacecraft were Astronauts David M. Walker, Ronald J. Crabe, Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee. Moments later, the spacecraft’s landing gear came to a stop at 12:44:33 p.m. (PDT), 8 May 19890. It landed on Runway 22, a concrete facility, like a number of other NASA flights. Still others have landed on unpaved dry lake bed strips.”
Not a mention of the mission, the deployment of the Magellan/Venus radar mapper spacecraft - THE FIRST U.S. PLANETARY MISSION IN ELEVEN - 11 - IIIII IIIII I years! But by golly, now we know that, like a number of other orbiters, it landed on a concrete runway! The pièce de résistance: 'still others' landed on unpaved dry lake beds!!! No!?! Really?!? That being the key takeaway from this photograph. O - M - G. The bar being exceedingly low, at least it didn’t reference the pretty clouds in the bright blue sky.
STS30_v_c_o_TPMBK (S30-(S)-123)
“STS-30 --- The Space Shuttle Atlantis glides toward a landing on the Mojave Desert after spending just over four full days in space. Aboard the spacecraft were Astronauts David M. Walker, Ronald J. Crabe, Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee. Moments later, the spacecraft’s landing gear came to a stop at 12:44:33 p.m. (PDT), 8 May 19890. It landed on Runway 22, a concrete facility, like a number of other NASA flights. Still others have landed on unpaved dry lake bed strips.”
Not a mention of the mission, the deployment of the Magellan/Venus radar mapper spacecraft - THE FIRST U.S. PLANETARY MISSION IN ELEVEN - 11 - IIIII IIIII I years! But by golly, now we know that, like a number of other orbiters, it landed on a concrete runway! The pièce de résistance: 'still others' landed on unpaved dry lake beds!!! No!?! Really?!? That being the key takeaway from this photograph. O - M - G. The bar being exceedingly low, at least it didn’t reference the pretty clouds in the bright blue sky.