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From: ronk@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Ron Kraynick)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: shuttle landing anomaly
Summary: nosegear hit
Message-ID: <2668@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 18 Aug 89 16:38:34 GMT
References: <4500@portia.Stanford.EDU> <57706@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: ronk@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Ron Kraynick)
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In article <57706@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Harold McMillan  writes:
>
>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                  |

Yes, I noticed this too.  Usually the nose gear comes down rather
slowly until about the last 10 feet.  The nose did also appear to 
be a bit high upon the rear wheels touching.  Maybe they got a
little nervous.  It's not everyday you land a shuttle. 8-) 

Ron