Space Shuttle - STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey
GinGin » Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:46 pm
I decided to go for a long haul mission with saves and resumes to go through all the nominal operations that we can accomplish with the Shuttle.
Seeing the last screens from EatDirt and Thorsten, I wanted to go high both in inclination and in altitude, at the limits of what would have been the Vandenberg Department of Defense missions.
I chosed to try to replicate STS 62 - A, which would have been the first Polar Mission from Vandenberg in 1986.
Part 1: A tough journey began with thorough preparations