STS-128 Space Shuttle Discovery landing at Edwards AFB, Sept 11, 2009

(Note: It turned out this was the last time a space shuttle landed at Edwards AFB.)

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 circle" or HAC) back past us to the runway at Edwards.

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.