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Anyone seen the space shuttle

cathald
Participant

July 15, 2009 at 10:47 pm

Saw this tonight and must admit I never saw anything
fly faster across the sky
Now if I were a drinking man :wink: and had seen these lights
without knowing what was going on I would have been onto
the local radio station telling them I saw a U.F.O

Cathal

Cormac
Participant

July 16, 2009 at 12:49 pm

We were pox lucky the sky was clear enough to see the shuttle last night – it really looked sensational, more so than the international space station a few months back.
There is another appearance either tonight or tomorrow.

Seoirse
Member

July 16, 2009 at 1:46 pm

You can check out the times for viewing both here:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings

kenh
Participant

July 16, 2009 at 1:49 pm

cathald wrote:

Saw this tonight and must admit I never saw anything
fly faster across the sky
Now if I were a drinking man :wink: and had seen these lights
without knowing what was going on I would have been onto
the local radio station telling them I saw a U.F.O

Cathal

Now I am a drinking man, but knew what I was looking for, and still thought it was a UFO :oops:

And that was through the usual omnipresent Cork layer of sea mist! It was even more pathetic that
I tried to shoot it with a 300mm f4 lens :cry:

aoluain
Participant

July 16, 2009 at 4:32 pm

Ken you have the smilies the wrong way around !!!!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Cormac
Participant

July 16, 2009 at 4:53 pm

Did anyone get any images they are willing to post?

miki g
Participant

July 16, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Any members here from NASA? or possibly other spacers? :D

jessthespringer
Participant

July 17, 2009 at 10:00 am

miki g wrote:

or possibly other spacers? :D

hmm, yes, there are a few spacers alright! hehe…

Just heard on the radio it will be visible again tonight, 10.32 pm

PeteW
Member

July 17, 2009 at 5:26 pm

According to the link above – 10:53PM for us up north.

SHUTTLE
Fri Jul 17/10:53 PM
5 – Duration (MIN)
32 – MAX ELEV (DEG)
10 above W – Approach (DEG-DIR)
10 above SE – Departure (DEG-DIR)

ISS is the same so can only assume they have, or are close to being, docked.

Now if only I remember to check ….

Alan Rossiter
Participant

July 17, 2009 at 10:13 pm

Just saw it going over. I saw a couple of satellites going over from north to south and then from south to north and thought..nah, couldn’t be them, could it. Then it went over…big bugger. You can’t miss it and it went straight overhead. Amazing to think there’s 13 people in it.

Alan

jessthespringer
Participant

July 17, 2009 at 10:33 pm

I saw it too, pretty amazing, really big, and it is amazing to think there are that many people on board. Perfect night to view it too,
hardly a cloud in the sky.

Nice to see a little bit of history in the form of a ‘space chase’ on the day that’s in it. As they say…