EXACTLY where in the world is the Shuttle when it hits the Earth's atmosphere?

Question

Each NASA launch is timed accurately to coincide with the shuttle entry... and given the world is rotating..

Whose space and which part of the Country does it hurtle through the Earth's atmosphere?

Is each entry damaging our protective ozone layer.. something akin to a slow puncture on a car tyre..?

I DO realise that people are not actually hunkering down under thier tables wearing tin hat incase the shuttle lands on them !! DUH !

My point, badly put obviously, was that which ever country the shuttle passed thru the Earth atmosphere to return home is having it's little bit of protective layer weakened - as I said - like a slow puncture in a tyre !!

Answer 1

Here we go with the ozone again ... It's not a problem anymore and with one or two shuttle launches a year, who cares. Are they still using old books in school and ranting about the ozone layer? It's growing again.

Answer 2

The shuttle does not damage any part of teh Earth's atmosphere. the atmosphere is just a bunch of gases, which gives way to the oncoming mass and then gets back together.
The entry thus, of course, cannot damage the ozone or any other layer in the atmosphere. Agreeing with Kris, it is akin to diving in a swimming pool.

Answer 3

There is no clear boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and space as the density of the atmosphere gradually decreases as the altitude increases; thus, nothing is happening to the earth's atmosphere as the shuttle enters it. The entry is the same as diving into a swimming pool.

Answer 4

usually time out satellites fall into the ocean or deserts where there are no people.

Space shuttles do not cause damage to the ozone layer but their parts (screws etc) become a mess orbiting earth.

Thank you!