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Shuttle landing on Friday
Posted: July 28th, 2009, 11:32 pm
by OZZIE4DUKE
Re: Shuttle landing on Friday
Posted: July 28th, 2009, 11:43 pm
by DukePA
Very cool! When I was in the Navy's basic electronics school in Orlando during the early 80s, we were able to see the vapor stream (?) from shuttle take offs.
Re: Shuttle landing on Friday
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 8:28 am
by CameronBornAndBred
That would be awesome. Post pics if you can.
Re: Shuttle landing on Friday
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 8:28 am
by bjornolf
I'll try to remember to watch the NASA channel on Friday then.
Re: Shuttle landing on Friday
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 8:29 am
by CameronBornAndBred
Vibing for good weather, those NASA guys are picky. If a bug farts, it's too windy.
Re: Shuttle landing on Friday
Posted: July 29th, 2009, 8:43 am
by OZZIE4DUKE
CameronBornAndBred wrote:Vibing for good weather, those NASA guys are picky. If a bug farts, it's too windy.
There is a chance of showers Friday morning. Hot holding my breath yet that it will work out for us - better it work out for the astronauts.
Re: Shuttle landing on Friday
Posted: July 31st, 2009, 10:25 am
by CameronBornAndBred
The shuttle IS on it's way back this morning. Have a great time Ozzie!
Re: Shuttle landing on Friday
Posted: July 31st, 2009, 11:23 pm
by OZZIE4DUKE
We left Pompano Beach about 8:15, about 30 minutes too late to get to (even with) KSC. We stopped about 25 miles south at a rest stop about 5 minutes before touchdown, hoping to see something in the break in the clouds to the north and west, but no dice
Talking so someone who also was "looking up", she said her husband in Palm Beach called her and said the sonic boom shook their house - I figured the shuttle would be coming in from the west, not the south, so we may have been looking the wrong way
, although there were clouds over head anyway.
Re: Shuttle landing on Friday
Posted: August 1st, 2009, 4:13 am
by CameronBornAndBred
Bummer, at least you were close enought to try. Hope y'all had a good trip.