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#21 Postby HurryKane » Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:13 am

floridahurricaneguy wrote:I will be in Tampa by landing. Should I be able to see/hear it monday morning. Any idea where to find time on there. dont see where to look for landing sighting information.

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From Steve's link in the original post:

Finally, on the morning of August 8th, the shuttle is due to land at the Kennedy Space Center. Reentry won't be visible from much of the United States. The shuttle's intended trajectory takes it over the Yucatan Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico.


Sounds like you will be able to see it to the south.

I caught it flying overhead this morning--that thing was bookin'!
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#22 Postby mvtrucking » Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:14 am

HurryKane wrote:
floridahurricaneguy wrote:I will be in Tampa by landing. Should I be able to see/hear it monday morning. Any idea where to find time on there. dont see where to look for landing sighting information.

Thanks

Matt


From Steve's link in the original post:

Finally, on the morning of August 8th, the shuttle is due to land at the Kennedy Space Center. Reentry won't be visible from much of the United States. The shuttle's intended trajectory takes it over the Yucatan Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico.




Sounds like you will be able to see it to the south.

I caught it flying overhead this morning--that thing was bookin'!



Hurrykane,

I went out to look this am but unfortunately, I couldn't see because of the tall trees all over the neighborhood. How far off the horizon was the ISS & the shuttle? (It was supposed to be 24 degree's above it here and flying from SSW to NNE)
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#23 Postby HurryKane » Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:03 am

mvtrucking wrote:Hurrykane,

I went out to look this am but unfortunately, I couldn't see because of the tall trees all over the neighborhood. How far off the horizon was the ISS & the shuttle? (It was supposed to be 24 degree's above it here and flying from SSW to NNE)


What I saw was about 40 degrees above the horizon, headed SW to NE.
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#24 Postby Wpwxguy » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:10 pm

Pretty awesome stuff, quite a site. The ISS and Discovery were about a hands length apart in the sky as they came over. It was worth getting up for. They were trucking. Did anyone else see a single bright light about a minute or so ahead of the orbiting duo. Should be able to see it again Sunday morning, but they'll be a minute or so apart in the sky.
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#25 Postby floridahurricaneguy » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:42 pm

I saw it! It was cloudy here so we saw it when it went by breaks in the clouds. Cool to see the two bright lights.

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#26 Postby Wpwxguy » Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:25 pm

Just found out that the first bright object that came over about a minute or so ahead of Discovery and the ISS was the Hubble Space Telescope. It was a triple treat. WOW! Awesome!
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#27 Postby thefixed » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:54 am

I just saw it here in South Florida. Half the sky was covered wih clouds but the other half was completely clear. they came about 10 full moon diameters away and straight above my head. It was stupendous!
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#28 Postby TampaFl » Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:54 am

WOW! What a site :D The ISS & Shuttle just went over as scheduled at 5:41am this morning here in Tampa. It was almost directly overhead moving sw to ne at a good clip. Looking foreward to hearing those twin sonic booms in the morning Monday 8/8) just before landing :eek:

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#29 Postby jimbo » Sun Aug 07, 2005 6:36 am

Steve wrote:It probably belongs in another forum, but if you're in any of these cities, the Space Shuttle and Space Station will appear in the sky between 5:40 and 6:15am either Saturday morning (LA/MS/AL) or Sunday morning (FL/TX/OK). I've only seen the Shuttle streaking across the sky once on its way to a landing in Florida. It was an orange streak that crossed the sky in about a minute followed by 2 sonic booms later on. Here's a link to the article...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005 ... list161697

Enjoy.

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Thank you SO MUCH for posting this. The Wife, kiddies, and I had the lawn chairs out in the street wiith the neighbors and had a blast.
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#30 Postby floridahurricaneguy » Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:33 pm

What time in Tampa should I be out to hear and see it? Around 4:30 be outside?

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#31 Postby Steve » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:54 am

>>Thank you SO MUCH for posting this. The Wife, kiddies, and I had the lawn chairs out in the street wiith the neighbors and had a blast.

No problem jimbo. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I went out with my middle kid and we just looked up and saw the two objects cross the sky. We were hoping to catch a sonic boom, but because it was in orbit rather than descending, I guess you don't get one (or two) of those.

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#32 Postby floridahurricaneguy » Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:32 pm

Going to try and see it tomorrow morning. When should we be looking?
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