"Earl Grieda" wrote in message
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"Brad Zeigler" wrote in message
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"Dave" wrote in message
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I watched you and imagined this morning. I thought about past
endeavours; sucesses and failures.
I prayed.
Gliding that rock dead stick from 8 grand down to 300 must be
the ultimate!!

And as an added bonus, the Edwards AFB landing qualifies Commander
Collins for two weeks of valuable cross country time, as opposed to
having to log the time as "local" had they landed at the Cape.

Other than the computer just who flies these things. Watching the landing
on some NASA cable channel they kept refering to pilot Jim Kelly.




The Shuttle has a Mission Commander, in this case Collins and a Pilot,
Kelly. The Apollo moon flights had a mission commander and two pilots one
for the lunar lander and one for the command module (The guy that flies all
the way to the moon and doesn't get to land. What has to be the best worst
job in history.)