[naturalman1975]

[American Constitutionalist]

Kool

[Gil4]

Contrails. Take cover

[cripplecreek]

Very cool. Unfortunately I live in a place where I’ll never see it upon take off or reentry.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, I’ve never heard of that before (somebody seeing the shuttle with the naked eye 20 minutes after launch thousands of miles away). Very cool.

Off-topic...why do the Brits call their housing developments or apartments “allotments”? Are you allotted just so much land or apartment space? Is this rationing? Did they run out of space and create a central bureau to allot what is left?

[stormer]

For those interested in shuttle, ISS, or other satellite viewing opportunities: http://www.heavens-above.com/

[A.A. Cunningham]

Discovery will seem to "flicker," then abruptly wink-out 8 minutes and 24 seconds after launch as the main engines shut-down and the huge, orange, external tank (ET) is jettisoned over the Atlantic at a point about 795 statute miles uprange (to the northeast) of Cape Canaveral and some 430 statute miles southeast of New York City. At that moment, Discovery will have risen to an altitude of 341,200 feet (64.6 statute miles), while moving at 17,552 mph (mach 24.6) and should be visible for a radius of about 770 statute miles from the point of Main Engine Cut Off (MECO).

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/090824-see-shuttle-discovery.html

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

I used to live about 30 miles south of Cape Canaveral and we’d watch them launch stuff on TV and then run outside and it would just be clearing the trees. I was at work and on the phone when the Challenger was last launched, heard people screaming outside and ran out to see pieces falling everywhere.

[Conan the Librarian]

I live 250 miles north of the cape and we see the launches here quite well. Night launches are great when we have a dark clear night. We can see the flash of the engines lighting up and as the cone of light shrinks, you can see the shuttle jump up out of the ocean. We pretty much have it until it goes below the horizon over Britain.

Here, enjoy a bad video I took about 3 years ago from a friends yard overlooking the marsh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-CAbRBiQI