File:Atlantis Astronauts Practice for Orbit.jpg
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NASA astronaut Alan Poindexter climbs into a shuttle training aircraft to begin practice landings at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Poindexter is making his first flight and will serve as pilot. Dressed in his launch and entry suit, STS-122 Pilot Alan Poindexter enters the shuttle training aircraft, or STA, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Poindexter and Commander Steve Frick are practicing shuttle landings in the STA before the Feb. 7 launch of space shuttle Atlantis. The STA is a Grumman American Aviation-built Gulf Stream II jet that was modified to simulate an orbiter's cockpit, motion and visual cues, and handling qualities. In flight, the STA duplicates the orbiter's atmospheric descent trajectory from approximately 35,000 feet altitude to landing on a runway. Because the orbiter is unpowered during re-entry and landing, its high-speed glide must be perfectly executed the first time. |
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| Date | Taken on 4 February 2008 | ||||||||||
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NASA/Kim Shiflett
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| current | 13:52, 15 May 2011 | | 3,000 × 2,014 (367 KB) | Ras67 | high resolution |
| 07:24, 6 February 2008 |  | 400 × 268 (17 KB) | Anonymous101 | {{Information |Description=NASA astronaut Alan Poindexter climbs into a shuttle training aircraft to begin practice landings at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Poindexter is making his first flight and will serve as pilot. Pho |
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