On the fifteenth of November 1988 a machine with no crew came home through a storm that should have kept everyone on the ground. It flew one approach, because without engines there is no second one, and stopped three meters from the centerline. I have read the telemetry the way other people read letters.

This one hands you the stick that nobody held. You pick her up coming out of radio blackout, nine and a half kilometers over the steppe, and everything from there to wheel stop is yours. The computer set the record in 1988. It is still standing.

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