Re: NASA Announces Space Shuttle Atlantis Landing Times for June 22

baalke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The crew will have several opportunities to land Atlantis on Friday:
two at Kennedy and three at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Can anyone explain why there would be 2 at KSC and 3 at Edwards ?

Is it because they would allow a north-west to south-east re-entry for Edwards which they don't for KSC ?

If they allow the descending node re-entries would't there be 4 opportinuties during the 2 orbits ?
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