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Topic: Photo of the week 582 (December 19, 2015)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 12-18-2015 03:04 PM
   
 No longer weightless, STS-7 mission specialist Sally Ride waits until the hatch is opened as she stands on the middeck of space shuttle Challenger after landing at Edwards AFB on June 24, 1983. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2915
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-18-2015 05:38 PM
Don't recall seeing this one before, Ed, of Dr. Ride awaiting the crew's departure from Challenger after their landing at Edwards AFB. Imagine her excitement and thrill at becoming the first American woman in space. She seems very happy in the photograph. |
Ronpur
Member Posts: 1211
From: Brandon, Fl
Registered: May 2012
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posted 12-18-2015 08:31 PM
I don't remember seeing ANY photos post landing inside the shuttle. This is awesome! |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-18-2015 09:05 PM
Another great photo Ed. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 12-19-2015 04:07 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Ronpur:
I don't remember seeing ANY photos post landing inside the shuttle. This is awesome!
Check Photo of the week 577...  |
Ronpur
Member Posts: 1211
From: Brandon, Fl
Registered: May 2012
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posted 12-22-2015 06:39 PM
They say the memory is the first to go...
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robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 02-09-2016 10:54 AM
Thanks Ed. It's always good to see a new photo and one showing a crew member inside the spacecraft following the return to Earth is a bonus. The crew must be so excited at this time and just wanting that hatch to open so that they can meet friends and family again. After the concerns preceding re-entry, the release of tension must be a great relief. On a lesser scale, I suppose those of us who have returned from a journey abroad and are sitting in the aircraft waiting for the doors to open must know a tiny bit about what they are feeling. Of course shuttle crews don't have to go to the baggage claim! |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 02-10-2016 12:10 AM
quote:
Originally posted by robsouth:
Of course shuttle crews don't have to go to the baggage claim!
Unless you're the crew in the Specsavers ad! |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
From:
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 02-10-2016 07:07 PM
My thought would've been "BATH" then "SHOWER" as well. |
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