[Chesterbelloc]

Well, last night I went to http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/groundtracs to make sure I had the correct time for it passing over my area. I live high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Central California. The kids and I go out there this morning and the big beautiful fireball trailing a plume of smoke goes by amazingly fast right on schedule at around 5:55. I tell the kids in just 20 minutes it'll be on the ground in Florida. Think about going inside and turning on the tv to watch it land, but go back to bed instead. Wake up and turn on the news later - what a horrible sick feeling! God Bless those 7 precious souls...

[Chesterbelloc]

BTW, if you visit the spaceflight site to see it's Deorbit flight path - it was orbit 255 (the top one) that it took.

[leadpenny]

I'm sure if you would have seen anything coming off the shuttle you would have said so but did anything look out of the ordinary?

[OldFriend]

The seven precious souls were lifted to heaven by the loving people around the world who watched in awe as it passed overhead.

May their families find comfort in knowing how much their courage meant to all of us here on earth.