Re: Shuttle landing path

From: Fred Valcho (fvalcho@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 21 2011 - 20:36:27 UTC

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    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 . . .
    
    
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    >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
    >> >
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