space shuttle visible

Cleat Eastwood
Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
edited March 2011 in The Crudcatcher
just to make your st davids day more special

it came over at 6.20 then again again just now at 7.55

Its coming over again in another 1 hour 40.

Look to the south west. It looks like a shooting star...but its not its the SPACE SHUTTLE.
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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    thats very cool
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  • ctrlaltdel
    ctrlaltdel Posts: 114
    nice to know there are some fellow spaceflight enthusiasts here!
    I've been hoping for a break in the cloud so I could catch a glimpse of Discovery, especially when undocked from the ISS next weekend. It'll be the last time we'll see her flying and not parked in the smithsonian as some tourist attraction.
  • sniper68
    sniper68 Posts: 2,910
    Too much cloud here :?
    Lynskey R480

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Isn't it usually Supersonic who posts stuff like this?
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    if you do see it it looks like a shooting star but its freaky to think that the crew are actually doing this

    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/ ... spacewalk/
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    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Satellite fly bys:

    http://www.spaceweather.com/flybys/country.php
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  • El Capitano
    El Capitano Posts: 6,400
    supersonic wrote:
    Satellite fly bys:

    http://www.spaceweather.com/flybys/country.php

    Excellent link, thanks. :D
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,136
    Very cool link!

    Did you all see the new (but scrapped) moon landing buggy on top gear?

    Proper gutted is been scraped :(
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  • ctrlaltdel
    ctrlaltdel Posts: 114
    that moon buggy was very pie in the sky - not even the rockets meant to carry such a vehicle were adequately funded: If you look up the history of the Ares I launcher, you'll find it was canceled for very good reasons - it cost a ridiculous amount of money and even on the design board it never really worked. But it made good sense from a political perspective (lots of shuttle workers keep their jobs in the space states like Florida, Louisiana and Utah) so that was what was chosen over already existing rockets that were cheaper and, in the end, more powerful. Ares V wasn't much better.
    Not that it gets any better from here on out: NASA is designing a rocket mandated by congress, but congress still isn't giving them enough funding for it. To make matters worse, they're building the thing without knowing what it will be used for. ISS resuply? Moon? Asteroids? Mars (heck no!)? No payloads are being designed for any form of beyond-earth-exploration and there is a complete lack of a clear cut vision - something that the previous canceled program, despite all its flaws, did at least have.
    It's all a very sorry state to be in for America's space industry and for the nerds like me who follow its progress, or lack thereof.

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