CNN Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight June 4, 2024 02:36:00
Asking me to see if i could find out some more information. Nasa does not own any military satellites, but at that time we had a close Working Relationship with the Patrick Air Force base, so i put in a request with them. Theres a lot of work to get a photo. One would have to interrupt the mission to get the right lighting, to make sure youre over, the right satellite is in position. And then now you have an army of people on the ground. We have to reorient the shuttle for the proper exposure angles and all that. And to do that means they may have to terminate their science experiments. In a p...
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