Space Shuttle Atlantis Endeavour STS-118 08 August 2008 HD
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STS-118 was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. STS-118 successfully lifted off on August 8, 2007 from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida and landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility at KSC on August 21, 2007.
It was the first flight of Endeavour since the STS-113 mission in November 2002, which was the last successful Space Shuttle flight before the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-107. STS-118 pilot Charles Hobaugh had been the entry team CAPCOM for STS-107. Had the Columbia not disintegrated, it would have been chosen for this mission, which would have been its 29th mission, and probably its only mission to the ISS.
The mission is also referred to as ISS-13A.1 by the ISS program. The mission added two more components to the International Space Station as well as bringing supplies for its crew. The completion of the mission left twelve flights remaining in the Space Shuttle program until its end in 2010, excluding two as-yet-unconfirmed Contingency Logistic Flights.
During and after the mission, the media focused heavily on a small puncture in the heat shield, created by a piece of insulation foam that came off the external tank of Endeavour during liftoff. Foam impact was the cause of the destruction of Space Shuttle Columbia, but the extent of damage was very small in comparison and in a less critical area. KSC Launch Director Michael D. Leinbach mentioned in the post-flight press conference, that upon initial inspection on the ground “Endeavour appears to be the ‘cleanest’ post-flight orbiter since Return to Flight”. On August 31, 2007, NASA reported that the damaged tiles had been removed in the Orbiter Processing Facility, and engineers had found no evidence of heat-related damage to the orbiter structure beneath.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-118
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(Video courtesy of Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service)
Moving between terminal D/E and C of the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, TX (IAH).
Take-off from IAH on board Continental Arlines Boeing 777
Airline: Singapore Airlines (the best in the world)
Nice Continenetal Airline 777 landing on runway 27 of Bush Intercontinental Airport-Houston,TX
Emirates Boeing 777-200LR (A6-EWC) lands on Rwy 26R completing it's nonstop flight from Dubai on December 3, 2007. Emirates is currently operating this flight 3 times a week, to be upgraded to daily early next year. The video quality is not the best, but it's the best I could do with my camera and no tripod. Enjoy. …
This was taken after we landed at Houston Intercontinental on Continental Airlines 737-300. We are taxing at a pretty good clip. , this plane is moving!! At the start of the video we are leaving Terminal B (ExpressJets) and heading over to terminal C the brown building with Continental Aircraft. (This is after we landed to see more of terminal B and Terminal A and the landing look at the video of CO 737-300 landing at IAH). Then when we pass Terminal D which is the white building with a …
This is an Emirates 777-300 landing in Houston (IAH). This is the first landing in Houston on an Emirates airliner in Flight Simulator on youtube (i think?).
BA 195 from LHR, a 777 (G-VIIK GE90) landing at Houston runway 08L.