Sonic boom!
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Fri, 2007-06-22 14:13.
I was out watering the back yard plants earlier when a huge BOOM! BOOM! exploded somewhere. We had no idea at the time what it was, thinking maybe it was fireworks or something. But I think I know what it was!
“California landing for Atlantis”
The shuttle touched down at the Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert at 1549 (1949 GMT).
Poor weather conditions caused the touch-down to be first delayed and then moved from the original landing site, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.