Quote from: bkellysky on 02/07/2010 09:10 pm1) Anyone on the east coast of the US going out to see Endeavour come up the east coast during powered flight? I was ready to go this morning, but I don't think I can do the earlier wake up on Monday and still have a productive week at work. The moon was in the southeast, and it would have been a really cool sight.A friend and I, plus several other people from around town, went down to Fort Fisher (near Wilmington, NC) to the secluded southern tip of the island to watch. We saw it from about 1 minute, 30 seconds MET to MECO. It looked amazing with the SRBs taking it up. A beautiful bright red color with a long, prominent flame trail, making a very apparent arc over the ocean. It was much like seeing it from the Cape, but in miniature. What blew me away more than seeing it at the Cape, though, was that you got a real idea of how amazingly fast the thing goes. In the time it takes me to take my garbage can from the side of the house to the street, the Shuttle went from being stationary in Florida to being over 400 miles away, off the coast of NC, due East of me. Another 3 minutes brought it 30 degrees east of North according to my position. In just 7 minutes or so, the thing had gone from horizon to horizon at about a 150-degree angle. Incredible.
1) Anyone on the east coast of the US going out to see Endeavour come up the east coast during powered flight? I was ready to go this morning, but I don't think I can do the earlier wake up on Monday and still have a productive week at work. The moon was in the southeast, and it would have been a really cool sight.
For those of you on the causeway I have a question that I have never found a detailed answer on: When the launch was scrubbed did you purchase another $56 ticket for the next attempt, and if so where did you do this and was it a pretty straightforward process?Thanks, and I hope to have tickets for March and hope to meet some fellow NSF'ers!
looks like this is from south southeast comments on you tube say 1 mile away. which with audio delay seems close about 15seconds for sound so I thought maybe 2 miles. anyone know what the whining sound is in background before shuttle noise come up?
Quote from: sts126 on 02/20/2010 03:57 amlooks like this is from south southeast comments on you tube say 1 mile away. which with audio delay seems close about 15seconds for sound so I thought maybe 2 miles. anyone know what the whining sound is in background before shuttle noise come up?Closest anyone gets is press, and that is a tick over 3 miles, and that is about 15 seconds for the delay
Is anyone heading to Edwards tomorrow night? Just curious about when others are planning to be out there and where they are viewing from.
Quote from: jthodges on 02/20/2010 02:18 pmIs anyone heading to Edwards tomorrow night? Just curious about when others are planning to be out there and where they are viewing from.I'm thinking about it, though I'm still not 100% sure. If I do go which is now looking around Monday night instead of tonight (assuming KSC is NO-GO tonight & tomorrow) I heard there is a nice viewing spot on Highway 58 @ 20 Mule Team Rd. There is a video on Youtube of a crowd of people there and they seemed to get a good view of it. I also saw some photos from approx the same location and that person was able to view touchdown (you could see the puffs of smoke from the Main Gear). I'll look for the videos & photos and post them if I can find them.