Вторник, возможности посадки (от http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight/news/STS-114-27.html):
Kennedy Space Center: 04:07 CDT (13:07 МСК)
White Sands, New Mexico: 05:39 CDT (14:39 МСК)
Kennedy Space Center: 05:43 CDT (14:43 МСК)
Edwards AFB, California: 07:12 CDT( 16:12 МСК)
White Sands, New Mexico: 07:13 CDT (16:13 МСК)
Edwards AFB, California: 08:47 CDT (17:47 МСК)

Преподчитают Кеннеди. Едвардс второй выбор--и лично, мой первый выбор потому, что я возможно могу увидеть посадку через бинокль с места недалеко от дома. )

Считай тебе повезло! Потом поделись впечатлениями о посадке!

1117 GMT (7:17 a.m. EDT)

Excess propellant reserves in the shuttle's forward maneuvering thrusters will be dumped overboard via four jets. The dump time will be 44 seconds, the astronauts were just told.

1115 GMT (7:15 a.m. EDT)

Onboard guidance is maneuvering Discovery from its heads-down, tail-forward position needed for the deorbit burn to the reentry configuration of heads-up and nose-forward. The nose also will be pitched upward 40 degrees. In this new position, the black tiles on the shuttle's belly will shield the spacecraft during the fiery plunge through the Earth's atmosphere with temperatures reaching 3,000 degrees F. Discovery will begin interacting with the upper fringes of the atmosphere above the South Pacific at 7:40 a.m. EDT.

1109 GMT (7:09 a.m. EDT)

Touchdown is 60 minutes away.