This mission was worthy of a hollywood movie the way I did it. First thing that happened was I spent about 3 hours getting the Unity to the right position to dock, then I needed to move the arm into rough position and translate towards the ISS to get the arm into a good grapple position. More things went wrong during EVA. The arm with EV-1 got stuck and I had to use it for the rest of the mission in single mode. EV-1 must have been bored out of his space helmet
. Then, when trying to get the final EVA back to the airlock, he couldn't squeeze between the side of the shuttle and the PMA, so he had to go up over the station, then back down into the airlock. At landing, I found out to my horror that I was at an exact 90 degree angle to the runway. Using my experience with Flight Simulator X, I managed to line up with the runway at the very last second. During final approach, I found out I have the speedbrakes out and was loosing airspeed at an dangorous rate. Then, at touchdown, It turned out I was at that magic airspeed where I was too slow to safely stay in the air, but too fast to safely stop. By a sheer miracle, I finished the mission on my first try.
We really need a nervous sweat emoticon.
