I was living in Manteca CA that night, I tried to capture its re-entry, but my Camera failed me, so I gave up and went to bed after it had passed over on a clear night. I'll never forget the bright image I saw, but never captured. Little did I know . . . >________________________________ >From: Paul Grace <paulgrace@lookoutranch.com> >To: 'Dale Ireland' <direland@drdale.com>; 'Roger' <roger.in.eugene@gmail.com> >Cc: 'SeeSat-L' <seesat-l@satobs.org> >Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 12:58 PM >Subject: RE: Shuttle landing path > >Columbia passed over Point Arena, California (I live here and heard it--damn >the cloud cover!) and burned up over Texas. It would seem it was >descending. > >-----Original Message----- >From: seesat-l-bounces+paulgrace=lookoutranch.com@satobs.org >[mailto:seesat-l-bounces+paulgrace=lookoutranch.com@satobs.org] On Behalf Of >Dale Ireland >Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:22 >To: 'Roger' >Cc: 'SeeSat-L' >Subject: RE: Shuttle landing path > >Gong! The policy was in effect for years before that. Also the Columbia WAS >ascending but it wasn't in a high inclination orbit . > >Dale > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Roger [mailto:roger.in.eugene@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:10 AM >> To: Dale Ireland >> Cc: SeeSat-L >> Subject: Re: Shuttle landing path >> >> I think after Columbia, they tried to avoid flying over the >> US on re-entry. >> >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Dale Ireland >> <direland@drdale.com> wrote: >> > Why did the shuttle almost always land on the ascending leg of its >> > orbit rather than the descending which gives the whole >> country a great view? >> > >> > Dale >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Seesat-l mailing list >> > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Seesat-l mailing list >http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > >_______________________________________________ >Seesat-l mailing list >http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20110721/7e9930b2/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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