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Re: pic: Discovery welcome home

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Originally Posted by bigbeezy View Post
I live like 5-10 miles away. I had forgotten that it was comming back then and I was in line at Mcdonalds and I thought the guy behind me had run into the back of me twice when the sonic booms hit. Then i remembered that it was the shuttle...

Does anyone know exactly how/where the Orion or whatever its called will return to Earth? I believe that I saw that I would return similar to the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo missions with a capsule dropping into the Ocean, but I could be wrong.

I will really miss that Boom.
Most likely it will hit the water like Mercury/Gemini/Apollo. Originally it was supposed to land on land, but that system weighed too much, so they scrapped it. But they say if they find the weight, they'll put it back in.
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