How to Land the Space Shuttle... from Space

You're traveling at 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h) in low earth orbit, your main engines are out of fuel, and it's your job to guide the spaceship through a fiery re-entry without burning up or skipping out of the atmosphere, navigate to your landing site, and arrive with just enough energy to make an unpowered landing on a runway which is halfway around the planet from where you started. No problem.



Note: Despite the outfit Bret Copeland is not an astronaut and has no affiliation with NASA.

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