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Updated: Space Shuttle Atlantis Landing Live Today @ 3:49 pm EDT Edwards AFB, CA
06/21/07 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 06/21/2007 6:52:42 PM PDT by KevinDavis

Let try it again.. The first landing attempt will be at the cape at 2:18 pm est at the Cape.

Details of the launch can be found at Spaceflightnow.com.


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: aerospacevalley; antelopevalley; atlantis; edwardsafb; nasa; shuttleatlantis; space; sts117
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To: Ladysmith
It was later tonight and the visible duration was not very long, nor was it as bright as before. You put that with the lower altitude for us here and we didn't try tonight.
21 posted on 06/21/2007 8:48:16 PM PDT by united1000
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To: KevinDavis

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...


22 posted on 06/21/2007 8:54:31 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: cabojoe

Just passed over San Luis Obispo, CA


23 posted on 06/21/2007 9:53:50 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: neodad

Yep, saw them both!


24 posted on 06/21/2007 9:58:08 PM PDT by cabojoe
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To: Ladysmith
Unbelievable! I just happened to be browsing posts and came across your link. I checked out my area and saw:

ISS Thu Jun 21 09:46 PM < 1 minute duration

Then I looked at a clock (accurate, of course) and it was 9:47pm.


25 posted on 06/21/2007 10:00:41 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: cabojoe
Yep, saw them both!

Same here. Over Stockton, CA. The shuttle was trailing by a lot more than I expected.
The Space Station was almost as bright as Venus...

26 posted on 06/21/2007 10:11:48 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Publius6961

What was cool was about 45 degrees above the eastern horizon, they passed into Earth’s shadow and disappeared. I’ve never seen that before.


27 posted on 06/21/2007 11:51:07 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: I see my hands
Now that was funny!

We must've been separated at birth.

28 posted on 06/22/2007 4:51:57 AM PDT by Egon ("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
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To: NormsRevenge

What time should it be flying over Houston? What time Central?

My folks live down there and got a huge kick out of seeing it last time!


29 posted on 06/22/2007 6:33:41 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (http://kimsbug.blogspot.com/)
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To: KevinDavis
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
30 posted on 06/22/2007 6:48:45 AM PDT by AntiKev ("No damage. The world's still turning isn't it?" - Stereo Goes Stellar - Blow Me A Holloway)
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To: KevinDavis

Please add me to space ping.


31 posted on 06/22/2007 7:18:53 AM PDT by agent_delta
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My $$$ is on afternoon landing at Edwards...

Kennedy already has weather forming - Edwards is CFB - CAVU.


32 posted on 06/22/2007 7:46:33 AM PDT by agent_delta
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To: agent_delta

spaceflightnow.com
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2007
1523 GMT (11:23 a.m. EDT)

CAPCOM astronaut Tony Antonelli radioed Atlantis commander Rick Sturckow an update on the Kennedy Space Center weather situation

“We are watching KSC. We are still dealing with the same things — rainshowers in the area and (a) cloud ceiling that’s right on the edge between scattered and broken. We’re working that and the showers. The seabreeze might be setting up, so that might push all of those to the west. We’ll need a little more time to work that, of course,” Antonelli said from Mission Control.

“That sounds great, Houston,” Sturckow replied. “We’re gonna suitup then.”


Pays the same.


33 posted on 06/22/2007 8:32:57 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: RightWhale

Actually - costs more because they have to cart her back to KSC.


34 posted on 06/22/2007 8:47:30 AM PDT by agent_delta
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To: agent_delta

That’s what the astronauts aboard ship say. We can ride around a while longer or land at White Sands and ride home from there. It’s a buck ninety-five an hour either way.


35 posted on 06/22/2007 8:52:41 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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Update: Rain showers in the south half of the “landing circle”. Decision for go/no go for 1st attempt at about1210 EDT.


36 posted on 06/22/2007 8:55:42 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Happily watching the Left go full-goose bozo.)
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To: RightWhale

White Sands?

mehh

EDWARDS - BABY!!!


37 posted on 06/22/2007 8:57:49 AM PDT by agent_delta
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Transcribed from Lindsey (t-38 weather watcher) in the STA:

“After dive into 15. I could see the PAPI (Approach). The runway was obscured by scattered clouds. Workload was low all the way down.

“Thin stuff at 8500. 500ft thick. Wouldn’t call it a ceiling at all. Some scattered at 3500.

“South end of field after approach-rainshower.

“That’s what I was afraid of,” after told the shower is not moving.

“Attempting dive into 33. Rain shower may knock it off.”


38 posted on 06/22/2007 8:59:06 AM PDT by agent_delta
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To: agent_delta

White Sands and they could take in the Roswell UFO conference while they are there.


39 posted on 06/22/2007 8:59:51 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: agent_delta

You live in FL? Are you listening live to their frequency or getting it from another source?


40 posted on 06/22/2007 9:00:43 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Happily watching the Left go full-goose bozo.)
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