ISS & Shuttle sighting 2nd try

boyledad · #1 (**permalink**) 08-15-2009, 02:15 PM

Don't know what happened to my other post but here we go again.

The evening of the day Endeavour undocked from the station I watched both fly over with my 10-year old niece, who is apparently suffering from modern education and didn't know we even had a space station. Being able to point at the dots of light going by and saying there is six people in that one and seven people in the other got her a little interested.

My viewing location is about 20 miles south of downtown Oklahoma City.

ScanManQSL · #2 (**permalink**) 08-28-2009, 11:51 PM

Looks like were a GO for tonight's lunch! Everything is a GO. Scheduled to lifted off at 23:59 Hrs (local time)

N2DLX · #3 (**permalink**) 08-30-2009, 01:51 AM

How'd the lunch go?

eorange · #4 (**permalink**) 08-31-2009, 08:05 AM

Saw the docked ISS/Shuttle orbit this morning about 6:15am EDT. WOW - it was probably a combination of the eastern sun and the docking, but the combo looked just as big and bright as Venus, floating across the sky. Really spectacular! I think the magnitude was -2.9 or so...

Also monitored Freedom Star during Friday night's launch on HF; always neat to hear that too.