July 31, 2005
Just a heads up, looks like the shuttle will be coming back on august 8th between about 3 and 5am. If it turns out the flight path will be visible from texas I highly suggest staying up to see it re-enter the atmosphere. I've seen it 3 times now and it's absolutely spectacular. If you catch it early you can see the earths curvature and it leaves a glowing plasma trail in its wake. Also, it only takes about 2 minutes to fly from horizon to horizon and it's unbelievable to think that people are actually in there.
Here's a really crappy picture I took of it flying over the capital. I had to enhance the contrast because the forground was too bright for the camera to pick up the trail well.
The dot on the upper left is a dead pixel and also keep in mind that the shuttle is too high for that to be reflected light off the trail. Much more spectacular in person.
Actually, I think it might even be more spectacular if it doesn't. Didn't you see the daytime video of the columbia?
nevermind about watching the space shuttle return. Here's the return track, not even close to texas.
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That's assuming it stays in one piece, right?
posted by natedogg at 09:23AM CST on August 01