Triple Flyover!
Mar. 26th, 2008 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishDid anyone else see the triple flyover last night?
Both my brother and my boss sent me emails letting me know about this; last evening the International Space Station, the shuttle Endeavor, and the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (a new unmanned ship on its maiden flight, for supplying the ISS) all passed overhead within a few minutes of each other. I was worried we wouldn't be able to see it with all of the street lights and some high cloudiness (the marine layer threatening to come in from the ocean as well), but I needn't have been. They were bright enough to have been mistaken for planes.
The Jules Verne appeared first from the southwest, and when it had almost disappeared, the ISS and the Endeavor rose, very close together and following almost the same path. It was quite exciting; I'm not sure I've ever seen one of the shuttles flyover before, or at least I wasn't looking. The only thing marring it was I ran up on porch to turn the light off, in order to see better, and in rushing back down the steps, I missed the last one, twisted my ankle and landed on my butt in the planter. Jeez, I am such a klutz lately. It hurt for bit, but it's ok now.
The Hubble Space Telescope was also supposed to have been visible at a little after six this morning - Gareth actually got up to see it, but it was cloudy.
Thesame three first two vehicles are supposed to be visible tonight as well, about twenty minutes later and from a slightly different direction. In the US and Canada, you can look them up here, by zip code: http://spaceweather.com/flybys. Or check out the NASA site for other countries: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/isssightings/
Both my brother and my boss sent me emails letting me know about this; last evening the International Space Station, the shuttle Endeavor, and the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (a new unmanned ship on its maiden flight, for supplying the ISS) all passed overhead within a few minutes of each other. I was worried we wouldn't be able to see it with all of the street lights and some high cloudiness (the marine layer threatening to come in from the ocean as well), but I needn't have been. They were bright enough to have been mistaken for planes.
The Jules Verne appeared first from the southwest, and when it had almost disappeared, the ISS and the Endeavor rose, very close together and following almost the same path. It was quite exciting; I'm not sure I've ever seen one of the shuttles flyover before, or at least I wasn't looking. The only thing marring it was I ran up on porch to turn the light off, in order to see better, and in rushing back down the steps, I missed the last one, twisted my ankle and landed on my butt in the planter. Jeez, I am such a klutz lately. It hurt for bit, but it's ok now.
The Hubble Space Telescope was also supposed to have been visible at a little after six this morning - Gareth actually got up to see it, but it was cloudy.
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