Is it just me or does is sound like the PIC's action of pulling back so rapidly was a bigger problem than the initial mistake? In his correction, he overshot the assigned altitude by as much as the initial descent went under it. It really just sounds to me like everyone was just having a bad night.
Any flight you can walk away from, though...
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CmdrTaco
from the wish-you-were-here dept.
Matthew Travis from the
Ares Institute Inc helped me get a press pass for the STS-135 Launch. so I'm crossing my fingers and hoping for no scrub. I'm tweeting as @cmdrtaco from the launch if you are into that sort of thing. I'll have more later, but for now you'll have to make do with a photo I took, as well as a brief video clip I took of Atlantis on the pad at night.