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Entry and Landing Timeline
COMPILED BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
Updated: July 15, 2006

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Here is that data, plus standard re-entry milestones, merged with key events in the shuttle Columbia's final re-entry to provide a sense of when major events happen. The Columbia data, provided as a rough reference only, is synched up with Discovery's descent from the point of entry interface, i.e., the moment the shuttle reaches the sensible atmosphere 400,000 feet up (all times in EDT):



 

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