Rare opportunity to see shuttle reentry in western USA

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

------ Forwarded Message
From: "Joseph C. Pistritto" <jcp () jcphome com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:49:18 -0800
To: dave () farber net
Cc: Laurie Mann <lmann () nethome com>, roger () xchng net, "John K. Doyle, Jr."
<jkd () cyberspace org>, Robert Jesse <bob () csp org>
Subject: Rare opportunity to see shuttle reentry in western USA

Dave:
   You might want to put this out on IP for early risers saturday morning.

The shuttle is scheduled to be landing at 6:16AM Pacific Time in Florida
early Saturday Morning,  after a reentry that will cross just north of the
Bay Area of California and then continue eastward before sunrise.   The
Shuttle shoudl be very visible as it reenters (I saw this once before for an
Edwards landing and it stopped traffic on I-5 it was so dramatic).

We don't see these on the West Coast very often.  This should be visible
over much of California, Oregon, Nevada and Utah and east at least to the
edge of the Mountain Time Zone.

Shuttle ground tracks are at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/groundtracs/index.html

Current shuttle status is at:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/status.html

One of these sights should have the updated information in case they decide
to land later, however right now everythign looks good for an early morning
landing.   Flight over the Bay Area (inside the atmosphere during reentry)
will be at 5:54AM PST Saturday morning (22 minutes before touchdown at
Kennedy Space Center).  You can hear a sonic boom when this happens, over *4
and half minutes* later.


--
Joseph C. Pistritto                                  jcp () jcphome com
Belmont, California                                 650 464 4859


------ End of Forwarded Message

-------------------------------------
You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com
To unsubscribe or update your address, click
  http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip

Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/