Re: STS-94 Reentry

GSteve490@aol.com
Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:23:37 -0400 (EDT)

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"