Some Space Operations
Lukey and Kenzie had an opportunity to try to land the Space Shuttle while we were at the US Air Force Museum. A short video of their attempt is at the bottom of this page. Neither of them succeeded in successfully landing the shuttle but Lukey did manage to get all the way to the long runway at Edwards Air Force Base. He crashed on the runway but he almost had a successful landing. Kenzie drifted too far off her glide path so her flight was terminated as a missed approach and hence a doomed mission. The space shuttle has no engines when coming back to Earth so once you start on the glide slope, you are committed and must land. You glide that behemoth in on a very steep and fast angle and then slightly flare just before touchdown on the runway. If you stray off your glide slope path as Kenzie did early in her flight, it's game over, since you would have no way to get back into position to land. In hindsight, both Kenzie and Lu...