According to SPACEFLIGHT NOW's Master Flight Plan at: http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/fdf/107plan.html for the STS-107 Mission currently in orbit, the Shuttle is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center at 5:53am PST on Saturday, February 1st. Reentry will occur over the San Francisco Bay Area at 5:31am PST -- 22 minutes before main gear touchdown. It will be a spectacular sight. At the altitude the shuttle will be over California at the time of reentry, observers within 250 miles perpendicular to the ground track have a chance to see the Shuttle. Of course, the Shuttle can also be seen eastwards to about the Mississippi valley region where twilight will become a factor. I've posted additional photos, charts and graphs about the reentry on my Yahoo Photo Account at: http://photos.yahoo.com/rickbaldridge Click on the album "ASTRONOMY STUFF" and you will see several photos beginning with "STS". Don't forget to click on FULL SIZE to download each photo in higher resolution. Each file is about 250kb. More details will be posted as the Mission progresses. Rick Baldridge ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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