Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "" video.

  1. And it may look short, but the Shuttle Landing Facility runway is actually one of the longest runways in the world.
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  2. Jonharson: Don't those universally have frangible mountings for precisely that reason? Also, why would the SLF even need an ILS in the first place? The shuttles would only ever be landed under VFR conditions anyways...
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  3. Johan Ström: Which is especially odd, given that they could easily have timed all the missions so that every launch and every possible end-of-mission or abort landing would have happened in broad daylight, thus eliminating any need for an ILS...
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  4. 4:51 - Powered pitch around, not powered pitch over. Just a little quibble.
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  5. 6:53 - Those would be the Bahamas.
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  6. 2:27 and 2:58 - Couple of pretty major design oversights there...
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