There was a choppy sensation as the shuttle entered the Earth's atmosphere.
He predicted problems emerging from the time that the shuttle entered the atmosphere "until about 200Kft," or 200,000 feet.
If the angle of approach is more shallow, the shuttle would enter the atmosphere too fast.
At 8:45, a half-hour before the scheduled landing, the shuttle entered the the atmosphere, 75 miles up.
The shuttle entered an orbit ranging in altitude from 178 miles to 232 miles.
The shuttle had just entered into that shadow.
The shuttle entered the docking bay, and the hatch closed behind it.
Tuvok's shuttle had just entered the bay, and he was at this moment en route to the transporter room.
Then a second shuttle entered the range of her screens.
Their shuttle had entered a narrow corridor cut into the sphere and then docked in a berth at the edge of the transportation center.