Watching Discovery
Aug. 9th, 2005 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringDD has been antsy all day about the shuttle. She's a real science geek. Did a lesson today with a tuning fork and water to illustrate waves and got water all over the classroom.
Anyway, she put me on to the JPL site and via them I've got NASA TV running on a corner of my screen. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Never kept track of a shuttle landing before. It's the sort of thing you usually hear about as a routine news item in the evening bulletin. Until the last one, that is.
Saw the shuttle/ISS combination go over a couple of nights back - a good pass, very bright. The next night there was a lower pass just after they separated and I missed it by a few minutes. Drat! Something i'd always wanted to see - two spacecraft flying more or less together as two distinct objects.
Oh well. I'm sure there'll be other opportunities.
Anyway, she put me on to the JPL site and via them I've got NASA TV running on a corner of my screen. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Never kept track of a shuttle landing before. It's the sort of thing you usually hear about as a routine news item in the evening bulletin. Until the last one, that is.
Saw the shuttle/ISS combination go over a couple of nights back - a good pass, very bright. The next night there was a lower pass just after they separated and I missed it by a few minutes. Drat! Something i'd always wanted to see - two spacecraft flying more or less together as two distinct objects.
Oh well. I'm sure there'll be other opportunities.
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