Anodyne
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
 

ACT (Aesthetically Claimed Thing): Re-entry (via the NYT)

"Colonel Lindsey said he and the pilot, Commander Kelly, had had a view on the way home that was even more spectacular than usual.

'It started out in darkness, and of course you see the orange glow as the plasma starts heating up,' he said, referring to the superheated gases of re-entry into the atmosphere. 'And you can see what looks like explosions out the windows, plasma flashes and things like that.'

As the shuttle banked left, 'I could see the earth below as the sun was coming up,' he continued. 'And Mark, through his window, through the plasma, could see the moon.'"
- posted by cjb @ 9:53 AM


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