Does anyone have a best guess on the prelaunch elsets for Expedition 1 (ISS mission 2R). It's scheduled to launch from Baikonur at 07:53 UT, 31 October and dock with the ISS on 09:20 UTC; 2 November. As I recall for the Mir docking missions, the Soyuz would trail the Mir by about 45 minutes at launch time. If this is the case for the ISS dockings, there may be visible pass opportunities at my location. On the evening of 31 October, the ISS will make a visible pass at 23:40 UTC. On the evening of 1 November, the ISS will make a visible pass at 23:45 UTC. Back in August, 1998 I observed a Soyuz and its R/B. It was a faily interesting sight. http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Aug-1998/0170.html Cheers Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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