Space Shuttle scheduled to fly over Calgary **EDIT- landing delayed! **

[Buzzard]

Crap.

It aint happening.

Good Night.

[IceMan]

1st landing opportunity has been waived off due to fog.

[Roast Beef]

Damn. I was staying up for this. night all.

[chalms04]

Fog @ Kennedy prompted mission control to skip Discovery's 1st landing time. Now targeting a 9:08a ET landing or CA

[3 Justin 3]

Oh well, I need to finish my essay anyway so it isn't like I was staying up for no reason.

So will it go at 9am then, or tomorrow?

[chalms04]

2nd opportunity at Kennedy is at 9:08aET; alternately, shuttle could land at Edwards in Calif. at 9:01aET

different flight paths though

[Bigtime]

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU, goodnight everyone.

[Redliner]

Well that sucks. If they follow the original pattern will it still be visible in the daylight?

[chalms04]

Pretty sure we only had the one shot. Lame

[Vulcan]

The second flight path to Kennedy will pass over Vancouver. I'm guessing at about 6:30 AM, so I might check it out.

[chalms04]

shooting for Kennedy #2

[IceMan]

Yup it looks like KSC is a good possibility. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

[Redliner]

Yep, looks like we're SOL. 2nd attempt pattern for Kennedy passes over Vancouver then down into Montana.

There are a few more missions between now & September; maybe we'll get lucky.

[chalms04]

[IceMan]

Crap that sucks.

[Pinner]

Originally Posted by Madman

I drove out west past Spruce Meadows in 96 and it was extremely impressive - and yes, I did hear the sonic boom.

You were probably really high sitting in a lawn chair and someone threw a cigarette butt over your head and farted at the same time

[jayocal]

I woke up an hour early to check this out. I should of checked CP beforehand. The cool thing is that I actually DID see the shuttle AND the ISS!!

Not knowing that the re-entry was delayed at the time, I was a bit disappointed that there was no fireball or plasma. The I was chatting with my neighbor (who was also out to see the shuttle) and, about 3-4 minutes later, another object appeared along the almost identical trajectory!! It turns out it was the International Space Station.

http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdat...a&city=Calgary

I'm still glad I woke up although I'm disappointed that Calgary isn't in the new flight path. Damn Vancouver gets the playoffs and now this!

[Madman]

Landing live now:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasat...l?param=public

[Vulcan]

I screwed up the time it was going to pass over me. I heard a boom before six sometime, must of been it.

[Mike Oxlong]

I saw this thread last night and thought this would be super cool to check out. I jump into bed around 11 not reading the rest of this thread about the delays etc....

Get out of bed at 5am wake the wife up who wasn't impressed but I convinced her to come outside and watch it with me.

At exactly 5:13 I see a bright looking star moving quickly across the sky. Certainly wasn't what I was expecting or hoping for. Now reading this thread I realize that must have been the ISS.

Not quite as cool but not nearly as dissapointing now that I know what I saw.