(meteorobs) Visibility of upcoming night launch of Shuttle Discovery

[Kim Youmans]

Hooray, here also, as I saw my first shuttle launch ever, from East Georgia.

Kim Youmans

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Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Visibility of upcoming night launch of Shuttle 
Discovery


> Sucessful viewing from here in NW NJ, had it visual from about +6:00 to 
> MECO
>
> WoooHooooo!
>
>
>> Members of our Internet list may be interested in viewing the article 
>> that
>> I
>> have
>> written for SPACE.com concerning visiblity of the upcoming night launch 
>> of
>> Discovery that is scheduled for Thursday evening:
>>
>> http://space.com/scienceastronomy/061205_shuttle_spotting.html_
>>
>> Based on my "visibility footprint" map, the best region to watch the
>> Shuttle's powered ascent to orbit is across the Carolinas, where both the
>> solid rocket
>> boosters and three-main engine burn (to MECO) should be visible.
>>
>> -- joe rao
>>
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