On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Robert Reeves wrote: > What can I say? Spectacular! The STS reentry tonight passed north of > San Antonio, Texas, so it passed below Polaris and above the tree line > across the street from me. I have seen a number of shuttle reentrys, > but never from the comfort of my own living room! We killed all the inside I concur. The living room provides a view of trees so I chose instead to sit on my car hood. This is the first re-entry I've seen that was in a cloudless sky so I was able to follow it nearly from horizon to horizon. The contrail was persistent enough to be visible stretched all the way across the sky at one point. The Shuttle was a bright point surrounded by a fiery, fuzzy yellowish ball. The trail was yellowish fading to white. I waited afterwards hoping to hear the sonic boom, but I never did (and never have for any of the re-entries). Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort."