1st Ever SPACE SHUTTLE Landing

[Xipe Totec]

Watch it while you can. Will probably be erased soon.

Copyright, etc., etc., etc.

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. That was cool!

An aside…I went to my brother in law’s deployment ceremony at an military base in Salina, KS several years ago. A rancher gave a barbecue every time a unit deployed from there. As my in law was showing me around, he says “come look out the back door”.

I go through the biggest overhead door I have ever seen, and out back was a literal ocean of concrete, as far as the eye could see, in every direction. Acres and acres of concrete. I said to in law, “why the heck is all this concrete here”?

He says “this is one of three (I think he said three) places that the space shuttle can land”. It was pretty cool.

[captain queeg]

2. We were on a road trip near White Sands NM when the first shuttle returned from space

We wanted to watch but there was some delay due to weather or something. I’d have liked to have seen it but there wasn’t a lot of other stuff to do around there. Though we did see Carlsbad Caverns. If you are ever within a couple hundred miles of there make sure you check it out

[CloudWatcher]

3. Probably won't be erased soon :)

The video was posted on Aug 30, 2009 and has 315,342 views. I suspect if it was going to be pulled for copyright it would have been gone by now

[LastDemocratInSC]

4. Kudos to Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton.

[skydive forever]

5. I worked on that program for 25 years.

A wonderful career. My wife worked on it for the entire 32 year lifespan of the program. I saw almost every launch from the VAB, just 3 miles from the launch pad. Great memories.

[Larissa]

6. That's amazing

I have always wanted to witness a Space Shuttle launch. The next best thing -- maybe -- is watching the launches on YouTube. Just the other day I was reading about the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger. I came upon biographies of the crew and was amazed by one in particular: Judith A. Resnik.

You can read about her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Resnik