In a message dated 97-07-17 15:27:56 EDT, you write: > Any ideas on the vanishing Shuttle? > --------------------------------------------- > > Today's message.... > > Spectacular! The God's favored us here in San Anmtonio. Three straight > clear mornings with STS passes and a reentry. This is very unseasonal > weather (usually clouds up at 1 AM.) but I am not complaining. STS popped > up over the trees right on time and damn! It was cooking! So that's what > Mach 25 looks like. !!! i ferget if it wuz a gravity gradient or other, perhaps an orbital manuver? I've had MIR pop out like that on some passes, on what was thought as a perpictlypictue-perfect twilight. (!?!!) #2> life as a re-entry obsrvr here @ 43.09N (CNY) is rough, glad u saw da plazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzma trail............................................... cheers, "g"