STS-119 reentry, STA flying touch and go's

Aviation Notable Activity
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the Shuttle training aircraft is now flying touch and go’s to prepare for Discovery’s reentry

flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA946

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Take a look at TTS, itself, and you’ll see one of the T38’s up too.

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First attempt waved off. Second and last for the day is 3:14EDT

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STA has now taken off again, but not showing up on the tracking page

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Shuttle landed and crew enroute home(?)
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA946/history/20090328/2125Z/KXMR/KEFD

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and probably feel similar to a deflated basketball, just don’t quite have that bounce back here on Earth.

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Here is the flight where the STA was performing landings:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA946/history/20090328/1440Z/KTTS/KTTS