Shuttle lands 3 miles from my house - Now with better pics

[Slag]

The space shuttle just landed in Ft Worth, and only a few miles from my home. I took these pics off of my back deck. I will post better pics once I download all 500 that I took 

[derby]

carswell?

[Slag]

carswell?

Sure is, though renamed NAS JRB Fort Worth.

[flanman]

Thats freaking cool! 

[Slag]

A few more. Sorry for the image quality. It was a long way away, and there was a bit of haze.

[mitt]

Very cool.  I was outside in Nashville one afternoon when a Shuttle was landing in Florida and it  passed over head.  It was freaking loud and fast.  I didn't know what it was until I watched the news later that night and saw its landing path.

mitt

[Grampa]

that's where baby shuttles come from

if you look close... you can see the shuttlecock

[IZ]

   ^

Nice pics

[DY]

Cool.. i just saw that on the news.  How did you know it was landing at that time?  Just happened to have a camera on you?

[Big Troubled Bear]

Very  cool   

[DY]

Very cool.  I was outside in Nashville one afternoon when a Shuttle was landing in Florida and it  passed over head.  It was freaking loud and fast.  I didn't know what it was until I watched the news later that night and saw its landing path.

mitt

strange... since the shuttle glides back to Earth deadstick, the noise you heard was just the air it was displacing.  I guess an object that big slicing through the air at such a high speed would be freaking loud. 

[Triple J]

strange... since the shuttle glides back to Earth deadstick, the noise you heard was just the air it was displacing.  I guess an object that big slicing through the air at such a high speed would be freaking loud. 

sonic boom?

[DY]

sonic boom?

Hehe, nah the sonic boom is only heard once as the shuttle re-enters the atmosphere and reaches Mach 1.  When I was living in Daytona Beach, I would occasionally hear it when the shuttle came back to Earth. 

[derby]

Hehe, nah the sonic boom is only heard once as the shuttle re-enters the atmosphere and reaches Mach 1.  When I was living in Daytona Beach, I would occasionally hear it when the shuttle came back to Earth. 

it actually produces two sonic booms, but they're so close to each other (half-second apart) they can sound like one.

[Grampa]

when it lands in Mojave, we can hear the booms (both) in Bakersfield.