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These are photos of the Space Shuttle Discovery landing at Edwards AFB on Sept 11, 2009 at the completion of the STS-128 mission. It's well-known that the Space Shuttle has a steep descent profile after it goes subsonic. In some of these photos, the apparent steepness of the Discovery's descent is exaggerated because it's initially flying away from us. We sighted it going overhead. Then it made a more than 180 degree right turn (the "heading alignment cyliner" or HAC) back past us to the runway at Edwards. I'm posting cropped photos in batches. (40 of 160 done) The uncropped photos are available in their own subdirectory. See also the photos from the same day of the flight from San Jose to Mojave, tour of XCOR Aerospace and Masten Space Systems XA0.1B rocket lander test flights.
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