Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!amdahl!reddy From: reddy@uts.amdahl.com (T.S. Reddy) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: shuttle landing anomaly Message-ID: <3cm0025B4cPV01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 18 Aug 89 18:25:39 GMT References: <4500@portia.Stanford.EDU> <57706@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 21 In article <57706@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, mcmillan@adena.cis.ohio-state.edu (Harold McMillan) writes: > In article <4500@portia.Stanford.EDU> rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) writes: > >CBS news reported during the landing the nose appeared high. > > On the video of the landing I saw on the news that night, I did not notice > if the nose was high, but I thought that the nose wheel hit unusually hard. > Maybe they had a hard time getting the nose down and over-corrected. > Anybody else notice anything? > -=- > Hal McMillan | > mcmillan@cis.ohio-state.edu | "Open the pod bay doors, HAL". > CompuServe 72627,642 | I saw the same thing. The suspension (or whatever else it is called) came into play quite a bit, with the nose dipping on impact and levelling out. -- T.S.Reddy Arpa: reddy@uts.amdahl.com uucp:...!{ames,decwrl,uunet,pyramid,sun}!amdahl!reddy