We had a nice view from the DC area of STS-116 taking off last December. We *almost* saw the landing, we heard the two sonic booms, but it was too hazy down in Titusville. We won't go to Florida this time, but I'd like to see STS-117 during boost from DC. If the launch is on schedule it looks like it will fly by the Moon and Mars. Anyway, I used the "Shuttle Ascent Trajectory" MS-Excel spreadsheet last time but it was off by quite a bit in time and position. Anybody else have problems or is it something I'm doing wrong? And I'm looking around for an updated trajectory file for STS-117. Any pointers? I'd like to whack at some viewing numbers myself... Thanks very much! -- Will Marchant marchant@ssl.berkeley.edu http://chips.ssl.berkeley.edu/~marchant/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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