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Saw the ISS and Discovery!
Mar. 8th, 2011 08:13 pmThe International Space Station and the space shuttle Discovery practically passed overhead this evening, according to this website via the University of Maryland Observatory.
I walked to the other end of my condo building, where there was a "puddle" of relative darkness between the stupid security lights. I got myself oriented (not difficult, as I live in a south-facing condo), and, sure enough, in a few minutes I saw a *very* bright space station moving across the sky. Another bright dot, a tad yellower, followed maybe 25 seconds behind in the same orbit (the predictions had been for about 15 seconds of spacing between the two). I watched them until they faded out as they crossed into the shadow of the Earth.
Hail to all the space travelers!
And, oh yeah, Happy 100th International Women's Day! "Women hold up half the sky...."
I walked to the other end of my condo building, where there was a "puddle" of relative darkness between the stupid security lights. I got myself oriented (not difficult, as I live in a south-facing condo), and, sure enough, in a few minutes I saw a *very* bright space station moving across the sky. Another bright dot, a tad yellower, followed maybe 25 seconds behind in the same orbit (the predictions had been for about 15 seconds of spacing between the two). I watched them until they faded out as they crossed into the shadow of the Earth.
Hail to all the space travelers!
And, oh yeah, Happy 100th International Women's Day! "Women hold up half the sky...."
