@JeffBezos Yes, but everyone should have some stake in the efficient use of our taxes. So everyone should pay something (even if small) so they have an incentive to vote for improving our system.
If you need to propagate many state vectors and predict the sky position, magnitude, rates etc for an object in space, the @b612foundation can help you.
This incident is the reason for the rule that in NASA T-38s we were not allowed to do circle to land approaches in actual instrument conditions. We could practice them in good weather, but they are challenging because they are flown substantially lower than the usual traffic pattern altitude, and because of the high speeds (240 knots for gear and flaps, roughly 165 knots on final)
The Shuttle simulator had no way to simulate the g forces, but the Russians had a simulator in a huge centrifuge. So if you screwed up and did a 9 g reentry, you actually had the pleasure of feeling that in the centrifuge. Good times!
If you come in too steep and have your lift vector pointed up, you can "skip" off the atmosphere and climb back upwards into very thin atmosphere which if you are not careful can put you into thin enough air so you have very little steering ability.
We used to train to fly reentry manually in the Soyuz as well as Shuttle. The same principle of rolling to control drag and cross range to end up at the target landing spot was used.
Like all capsules, there is a small amount of lift vector which is used to steer both cross range as well as the angle at which they dig into the atmosphere. Both are controlled by rolling the vehicle left or right.