Shuttle Glides to an Incident-Free Landing

I found another NASA article that interested me. It deals with the shuttle and how it has safely landed. This landing marks NASA's resumetion of building the international space station. Antlantis was found to have a piece of plastic jammed in its tiles, but the engineer team fixed it.
This article can be related to our phsics class because we are studying acceleration right now, and I think that specifically where the article says that the shuttle had to be slowed down to 205 mph to reenter the earth's atmosphere is of key interest because the decelleration there must have been very fast. I think that the shuttle goes around the earth a lot faster than that to stay in orbit, and those rocket engines had to have a lot of power to slow the shuttle down in 2 minutes.