25 Jul
2011
25 Jul
'11
4:04 p.m.
At 05:38 PM 7/25/2011 -0400, you wrote:
On 07/25/11 14:27, Clint Bradford wrote:
NASA PHOTO -
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/573236main_iss028e018218_full.jpg
This doesn't make any sense to me. It looks like a launch, not a descent. If the shuttle went down at that angle it would be toast.
I think they got their captions wrong?
--STeve
I thought that too until I took another look at it. This is a two dimensional view of three dimensional space, so things in the photo might give a different impression than what is described by it. The decent only looks step because the earth is a sphere and the orbiter's track in this view is away from the ISS.
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