getting ready for the sonic booms here:eek:

praying for a safe landing

we watch the launches from our back yard :) always spectacular but this last one was especially so !

welcome back to terra firma

A nice clean landing..:)

Thanks, Tom..:cool:

Friday the 13th superstition? At my job one semi-truck came off the scales and high centered on a concrete block, another took out a fence. Guess I'm just happy they didn't take out the scalehouse where I'm working :)

So Tom, what's the answer?

The official position is that being Friday the 13th had nothing to do with the extra 24 hours after un-docking.

I'll never know for sure. The general consensus here is that NASA avoids the number 13 like the plague - ever since Apollo 13.

This mission set a record for fewest anomalies during mission. I'm glad it happened on my watch, though I'm only a small player.

Tom