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	Mars Polar Lander - Entry, Descent And Landing
		If a final trajectory correction maneuver is required to fine-tune the spacecraft's flight path, computer commands for that thruster firing could be sent to the spacecraft during this session.
		The descent engines will be turned on one-half second later, turning the lander so its flight path gradually becomes vertical.
		The descent engines will be turned off when touchdown is detected by sensors in the footpads.
	mars.jpl.nasa.gov /msp98/lander/edl.html (921 words)

	Descent Maximum for PlayStation Review - PlayStation Descent Maximum Review
		This "final" Descent game features thirty action-themed levels, and while some of them are new, the majority are a rehash of Descent II on the PC.
		The coolest feature of Descent Maximum is the two-player link mode, which allows two players to go head-to-head in specially designed levels.
		Descent Maximum suffers from the same problems that plagued Descent and Descent II on the PC.
	www.gamespot.com /ps/action/descentmaximum/review.html (458 words)

	767.org.uk \| operating procedures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Descent to the final approach fix height may not commence until within 5 degrees of the inbound track.
		Once the final approach is established, the aircraft configuration remains fixed and only small adjustments need to be made to the glide path, approach speed and trim.
		One of the more common methods used is to aim at the desired touchdown point on the runway, then adjust the final approach glide path until the selected point is stationary in relation to the aircraft (the point does not move up or down the windscreen while the aircraft is approaching it).
	www.757.org.uk /767/sops/sop4.html (2908 words)

	FlightSim.Com How To...Use Approach Plates
		Final Approach has been designed specifically for flight simulation and not only allows you to view approach charts, but to design them.
		Descents can be radar controlled, or they can be done via Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs), which are approved methods of leaving an airway and flying towards an airport.
		The purpose of this part of the approach is to prepare the aircraft for final descent, and while you are executing it you should be completing the checklists, reducing airspeed and making one last check of the approach procedure.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/howto/plate/howtoappplate.htm (4109 words)

	Soyuz
		When the decision was finally made to race the Americans to the moon in August 1964, this design had to be scrapped and replaced with the L3 single-launch version using lunar orbit rendezvous.
		Finally the Soyuz A 7K spacecraft with the cosmonauts aboard would be launched, dock with the 9K, and be propelled on a lunar flyby trajectory.
		The L1A consisted of a modified Soyuz L1 service module attached to an LOK-sized flange, with a circumlunar Soyuz descent module, topped by an odd hybird propulsion module derived from that to be used on the LOK and LK lunar lander.
	www.astronautix.com /craftfam/soyuz.htm (5611 words)

	Splendid E-zine reviews: Samhain
		Part of this nine song CD points directly towards Danzig's evolution into his current being, steadfastly bellowing punk commandments from his recording throne as inflected notes and auspicious lines of paganism saturate the area.
		Intended more for avid collectors than casual fans, Final Descent nonetheless boasts some impressive wares, showcasing the end of the Samhain era and the birth of something just as fiendish.
		Finally, there's some hard physical evidence to support the claim that Marilyn Manson ain't the first to scare the shit out of the world's parents.
	www.splendidezine.com /reviews/jul-2-01/samhain.html (791 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| CGRO Deorbit \| Mission Status Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This was caused by friction between the spacecraft and the upper traces of the atmosphere.
		All systems are reported "go" for the final descent burn due to begin at 1:22:21 a.m.
		Two other descent burns were performed earlier this week to lower the craft's orbit closer to the atmosphere.
	spaceflightnow.com /cgrodeorbit/status.html (3145 words)

	The Final Descent
		Frederic and Catherine are in their final hotel room, in Lausanne, waiting to go to the hospital where she will die in childbirth.
		We are all finally outside the window, like the soldiers of the opening.
		He finally went to Europe, assaulted Omaha Beach in the third wave, and wrote great journalism about this.
	www.dartreview.com /issues/8.16.99/hemingway.html (1072 words)

	Huygens Is Go For Final Titanic Descent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This map illustrates the planned imaging coverage for the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, onboard the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during the probe's descent toward Titan's surface on Jan. 14, 2005.
		The Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer is one of two NASA instruments on the probe.
		European space scientists started the year by celebrating the history-making descent of their Huygens probe through the atmosphere of Titan and ended it by wondering how to fit future missions int...
	www.thespacetimes.com /v659.html (204 words)

	Apollo 11 Lunar Ascent Photomap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These are two photomaps which depict the track of the Eagle during its descent to, and ascent from the surface.
		The ascent map depicts the track of the LM from its projected landing point, and the descent map depicts the track, field of view and a time reference from PDI.
		Although, the descent map concludes at the PDI+4 minute mark, Robin Wheeler has provided a lower-resolution scan of the final portion of the descent map from the book Mapping of the Moon by Z.Kopal and R.W. Carder (1974).
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/alsj/a11/A11_des-asc_photomap.htm (324 words)

	SPACE.com -- Opportunity Caught its Shadow on Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This image was taken at an altitude of 1,986 meters (6,516 feet) by the descent image motion estimation system camera located on the bottom of the rover.
		This image was taken at an altitude of 1,690 meters (5,545 feet) by the descent image motion estimation system camera located on the bottom of the rover.
		This image was taken at an altitude of 1,404 meters (4,606 feet) by the descent image motion estimation system camera located on the bottom of the rover.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/opportunity_crater_040126.html (502 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Concorde readies for final descent
		Designers' icon and jet-setters' dream, Concorde begins its long descent on Saturday as Air France takes the supersonic airliner out of service after more than a quarter of a century in the skies.
		When flight AF001 touches down at Charles de Gaulle airport outside the French capital after the three hour and 45 minute trip from New York, it will mark the beginning of the end for a technological marvel that became a byword for grace and power.
		Conceived in the 1960s as a symbol of a fast-moving and globalising age, Concorde has now succumbed to the demands of a different epoch: environmental worries, safety problems, soaring oil costs and — in an anxious, recession-hit world — declining numbers of the care-free and the super-rich.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/240757.htm (656 words)

	Dude's Airplane Files - How Dogs Land Planes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The pilot enters the pattern, usually at a prescribed altitude, and then starts a final descent at or before "final approach." The end of the descent is the touchdown point.
		At final approach speed it is possible to control descent with the throttle.
		That final approach path should be a straight line (once you turn to final) to the touchdown point on the runway.
	www.scn.org /~bk269/landing.html (2034 words)

	Chapter 5 Section 12 PAR Approaches- Terminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Inform the aircraft when it is approaching glidepath (approximately 10 to 30 seconds before final descent).
		When an aircraft reaches the point where final descent is to start, instruct it to begin descent.
		Inform the aircraft when it is passing over the landing threshold and inform it of its position with respect to the final approach course.
	www.faa.gov /ATPUBS/Atc/Chp5/atc0512.html (702 words)

	Rough Edge: Samhain CD Reviews
		This recent, re-mastered re-release of the 1990 "Final Descent" is an interesting addition to anyone's Misfits/Samhain/Danzig collection, but it's surprisingly uneven and shoddily produced.
		As far as history goes, I'll take an earlier Misfits or Samhain CD, or a later Danzig CD, over "Final Descent." And, again, be aware that this CD runs only 30:00 minutes with nine tracks.
		The CD's final track ("I Am Misery") is a step back in the right direction but - after the lackluster performance of the previous tracks, it's too little too late.
	www.roughedge.com /cdreviews/s/samhain.htm (742 words)

	National Review: The Final Descent - Review
		Frederic and Catherine are in their final hotel room, in Lausanne, waiting to go to the hospital where she will die in childbirth.
		We are all finally outside the window, like the soldiers of the opening.
		He finally went to Europe, assaulted Omaha Beach in the third wave, and wrote great journalism about this.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_12_51/ai_54864479 (1174 words)

	Tournament Nights I-IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was originally intended that eight players battle it out on one level for the final round, but due to limitations of the 486 machines, the final round was played with two games of four players each.
		These computers ran Descent with no problem and we were able to place eight final participants in the final round.
		Though named "The Final Descent", TN3 was not the last Tournament Night where Descent was played.
	www.letu.edu /administrative/infotech/network/showcase/tn/tn1-4 (287 words)

	Mars Polar Lander MARDI Pre-landing Release 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The last two minutes of Mars Polar Lander's December 3rd descent to the martian surface will be captured in a series of images taken by MARDI, the Mars Decent Imager.
		The images used to make this simulated descent movie are derived from Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images of the polar landing zone obtained over the past few months.
		The simulation of landing is based upon the predicted behavior of the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft during its final descent on December 3, 1999.
	archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu /General/MPFMIR/msp98/msss/mardi_images/12_2_99_descentsim (213 words)

	Mir burns, slows for descent
		Their tracking of Mir in the final days will be transmitted to the Russians as a second source of information.
		Space officials voiced confidence that they could carry out a safe descent, pointing to their experience in dumping dozens of Progress ships and other spacecraft into the same area of the Pacific.
		But Mir was by far the heaviest spacecraft ever dumped, and its size and shape made it difficult to exactly predict the re-entry.
	www.chron.com /content/interactive/space/missions/mir/news/2001/20010322b.html (1111 words)

	NTSB - Publication
		At 0150:21, about 6 seconds after the airplane's rate of descent began to decrease, the left and right elevator surfaces began to move in opposite directions; the left surface continued to move in the nose-up direction, and the right surface reversed its motion and moved in the nose-down direction.
		Further, it is apparent that while the recorders were operating, both elevator surfaces were intact, attached to the airplane, and placed in the positions recorded by the FDR data and that the elevator movements were driving the airplane pitch motion, and all associated recorded parameters changed accordingly.
		Whereas the captain's audible alarm and the content of his statements in reaction to the situation upon returning to the cockpit were consistent with the reaction of a pilot who has encountered an unexpected flight condition, the passive behavior of the relief first officer was not.
	www.ntsb.gov /Publictn/2002/aab0201.htm (16908 words)

	www.usacycling.org -- Vanlandingham, Brown Take Big Bear XC wins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After amounting a 1:45 lead on his nearest competitor midway though the 29.3 mile race, a flat tire on the final descent obliterated his chances for his first ever NORBA cross country win.
		As the race disappeared from sight, the spectators fully expected to see Trebon solo in to the finish but to their surprise the first rider to round the final corner was Brown with Australian Trent Lowe on his wheel.
		In the final acceleration to the line, Brown took the win from Lowe by a few bike lengths leaving the crowd to assume either a crash or mechanical failure dashed the hopes of Trebon.
	www.usacycling.org /news/user/story.php?id=970 (675 words)

	Computer Shopper: News: Mir makes final descent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A piece of space history was made today as the final chapter in the Mir story was finished.
		The fifteen-year space mission came to an end successfully off the island of Fiji at 6.00am (GMT) as some of the remnants of the abandoned space station burnt up in the atmosphere.
		Now that Mir is not going to crash on Japan, worries are now forming that the craft may have brought mutant spores back to earth.
	www.pcpro.co.uk /shopper/news/19575/mir-makes-final-descent.html (341 words)

	Huygens probe set for final descent - Space News - MSNBC.com
		European spaceflight controllers are now making their final communications with the Huygens probe, soon to be deployed on the last leg of its journey to Titan.
		The probe is expected to take about 135 minutes, give or take 15, to make the descent to the surface, all the while streaming its observations (including more than a thousand images) skyward.
		This will require several widely-spaced radio telescopes to each detect the weak signals from Huygens during its descent, thus providing advance knowledge of its success or failure prior to the replay of data from Cassini.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6742671 (1326 words)

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		There was something unexpected about this new “home.” Unlike my previous descents, finding a home in the United States would shed a light on my past experiences.
		I knew through past experiences the fragility of long-distance relationships and was afraid that with every move, I was risking not only the loss of a home but the loss of a family as well.
		As the pilot was saying, “our final descent,” I had apprehensions of America as I was an expatiate making a final descent into my native country.
	www.du.edu /~kodonnel/collegeessay.doc (513 words)

	PIA Boeing 747 - Approach into London Heathrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This means that the aircraft starts its final descent when it has a certian track distance to run.
		Therefore, the final descent form FL70 is started at approximately 25 miles form touchdown.
		When it has approx 20 miles to run, it is given the instruction to "Report Callsign Only to Director on 120.4" The aircraft then calls the final director who will pack the aircraft in as close as is possible for the landing runway.
	www.divineislam.co.uk /PVA/Library/Docs/atc_pia_approach.shtml (966 words)

	Final Descent (1997) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Final Descent isn't an original flick.-But first and foremost a solid movie, without all the usual mistakes we're all so sick and tired of!
		I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Final Descent (1997) (TV)
	us.imdb.com /Title?0127557 (294 words)

	Final descent towards Titan - Science - www.smh.com.au
		Final descent towards Titan - Science - www.smh.com.au
		The European probe Huygens made its final descent towards the Saturn moon Titan today, culminating a seven-year quest covering 2.1 billion kilometres to explore one of the greatest enigmas of the Solar System.
		At 1013 GMT, the unmanned craft plunged into Titan's roiling atmosphere at the start of a two-and-a-half-hour parachute glide in which it would measure the moon's intriguing weather system and atmospheric gases, scientists said.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Science/Final-descent-towards-Titan/2005/01/15/1105582728517.html (662 words)

	_polygon paradise - descent 2_
		My newest Descent 2 level, features a large layout for a full game with a mainly D1 weapon load out.
		The best level hands down that I ever made for Descent 2.
		I made this level to try and look like the Descent 3 level Taurus.
	www.planetdescent.com /polygon_paradise/descent2.html (323 words)

	Time for Kids \| News \| Print \| Mir’s Final Exit
		Flight commanders turned on its steering controls and slowed the station down before it made its final descent.
		For a select group of people, Mir’s final exit marked the dream of a lifetime: watching the legendary space station plunge to the Earth.
		Rick and Bob Citron are the leaders of a group of 50 space buffs and scientists who spent $2 million to chase Mir in planes during its final moments.
	www.timeforkids.com /TFK/news/printout/0,9187,103452,00.html (364 words)

	Space Probe Makes Final Descent Towards Saturn Moon
		The probe headed to Titan's surface carrying half a dozen instruments within a clam-like shell to film and measure the moon's weather system and methane-rich atmosphere during a two-and-a-half-hour descent.
		Huygen's descent, on a moon 1.5 billion kilometers (940 million miles) from home, was the farthest landing from Earth ever attempted.
		The operation was fraught with potential hitches, including the risk of a crash or catastrophic malfunction when the 319-kilo (702-pound) craft entered Titan's roiling atmosphere.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/cassini-05m.html (1374 words)

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