[NormsRevenge]

Here’s to clear skies and a soft landing.

[KevinDavis]

[condo_living_is_nice]

Are they down, safely, KD?

[isthisnickcool]

I hope they get it back down safely and they finally park that thing. For good.

[Ladysmith]

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html

If you have clear skies tonight, locate your city and find out what time the ISS and shuttle fly over. We watched it the Wednesday night and could see both separated from each other. My brother and a couple co-workers saw them again last night. One more chance tonight! In fact, a little over a half hour from now!

[Publius6961]

I think posting a for-pay link constitutes advertising.
I thought that is a no-no.

[KevinDavis]

Here are some STS 117 Pictures:

STS 117 Pictures

[Bean Counter]

The last time we saw the station go overhead was 2 summers ago, before they added 2 more sets of solar panels. It was brilliant, fast moving and easy to see then, it’s got to be doubly so now.

I’ll have to do some checking to see when it’s going to be overhead again this sumer and see what the difference is...

[AntiKev]

Here's the live thread on NASASpaceFlight.com. Lots of good info there. http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=8512&posts=20&start=1

[eyespysomething]

ping

[TomGuy]

NASA TV

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/live_tv.html

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

It’s got like 10 minutes left.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From NASA:

STATUS REPORT: STS-117-29

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STS-117 MCC Status Report #29

The astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis are getting ready for a second day of landing attempts with a chance to conclude the mission, in Florida or California.

Poor weather prevented a landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday. Today Entry Flight Director Norm Knight will work with two opportunities to KSC and three chances at Edwards Air Force Base in California to bring Atlantis home. The Florida weather forecast includes the possibility for more thundershowers; the Edwards forecast is more favorable.

The crew’s wakeup song this morning, “The Marines’ Hymn,” was played for the mission commander, Col. Rick Sturckow, USMC.

The crew should begin deorbit preparations at 8:12 a.m. and close the payload bay doors at 9:32 a.m. Here are predicted times for today’s landing opportunities (all CDT):

ORBIT	SITE	DEORBIT BURN	LANDING
218	Kennedy	12:12 p.m.	1:18 p.m.
219	Edwards	1:43 p.m.	2:49 p.m.
	Kennedy	1:50 p.m.	2:55 p.m.
220	Edwards	3:18 p.m.	4:23 p.m.
221	Edwards	4:56 p.m.	5:59 p.m.

A landing at KSC on the first opportunity would give Mission Specialist Suni Williams a mission elapsed time of 194 days, 18 hours and 31 minutes, the longest spaceflight ever by a woman.

The next STS-117 status report will be issued Friday afternoon, or earlier if events warrant.

[TomGuy]

[LeoWindhorse]

God Bless America

it truly IS the most amazing country on this little blue Earth of ours....

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Cool, they’re down.

[Chi-townChief]

Perfect landing, if I do say so myself.

[TomGuy]

[Cementjungle]

Uh oh.... 2 of the astronauts were caught trying to bring back more than the allowed amount of duty-free booze.