[Loch-soilleir] OT: shuttle fly over

[Lauren]

The first was the Shuttle Endeavor, and then the Space Station.  The Russian
Progress ship is much smaller than the other two, and passed over 5-8
minutes later, lower in the sky.  It looked like a teeny plane, really,
except that it followed the same arc (just slightly closer to the western
horizon).

It was super cool, and I managed to even get the neighbor's teenage boys
(who were outside playing flashlight tag of some sort) to come watch with
the crazy lady standing in the middle of the cul-de-sac!

-Anne

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Hillary Greenslade <hillaryrg at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> As an added bonus, there's a triple flyover tonight,  of the
> > Space Station, Space Shuttle, and Russian Progress  vehicle,
> > a little after 9pm.  If the sky is clear, we can  all
> > stop for a moment, and look up at something on the other  end
> > of the anachronism spectrum!
>
> It was very cool!!
> I saw first what appeared to be a plane, as I thought I could see the
> flashing wing lights, what that the shuttle?.
> Right behind it, larger, was the space station, I suppose.
> Could not see the Russian Progress ship.
>
> Looking up at them flying across the sky so fast, I 'felt' like the earth
> was rotating/moving, too.
>
> Hillary
>
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