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Sunday, September 14, 2025
1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia lands on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base
I'm not a pilot and am barely conversant in flight dynamics. Are the multiple lines cross hatching each other, runway markers for different wind directions?
We drove out to Edwards AFB to watch the shuttle Discovery land in 1988, which was the first shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster in 1986. It was estimated that there were 400,000 people present for the landing. The traffic jam after the landing was EPIC .
I'm not a pilot and am barely conversant in flight dynamics. Are the multiple lines cross hatching each other, runway markers for different wind directions?
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Yes. If you go on Google Maps you can see a wind rose and the different marked landing zones out on the lake bed.
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DeleteWe drove out to Edwards AFB to watch the shuttle Discovery land in 1988, which was the first shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster in 1986. It was estimated that there were 400,000 people present for the landing. The traffic jam after the landing was EPIC .
ReplyDeleteI was there and have the parking permit to prove it.
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