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bobby
Aug 8, 08 - 5:43 AM |
International Space Station
We need to take a short break around 8:39 saturday night to watch this little white dot sped by us. See the Space Station This Weekend -- Aug. 9 and 10 Viewers in the JSC area will be able to see good passes of the International Space Station Saturday and Sunday evenings, assuming good weather: Saturday, Aug. 9 at 8:39 p.m. (Duration: 4 minutes) Path: 17 degrees above north-northwest to 13 degrees above east-southeast Maximum elevation: 51 degrees Sunday, Aug. 10 at 9:06 p.m. (Duration: 3 minutes) Path: 22 degrees above west to 12 degrees above south Maximum elevation: 26 degrees The ISS Trajectory Operations and Planning Group provide updates via JSC Today for visible space station passes at least two minutes in duration and 25 degrees in elevation. Several other opportunities, including those with shorter durations and lower elevations, and those from sites other than JSC, are available at the Human Spaceflight Web site below. 
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Turnipseed
Aug 8th, 2008 - 11:27 AM |
Re: International Space Station
Bobby, if you lose 1st round, you'll have plenty of time to watch it! LOL 
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bobby
Aug 8th, 2008 - 12:39 PM |
Re: International Space Station
Seen it. got parts on it. Just need to win.
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whv
Aug 11th, 2008 - 10:13 AM |
Re: International Space Station
As someone tht literally grew up with the space race, I want to thank you Bobby for sharing that information on the space station. Last night at work, I got a few co-workers and went outside to see if we could find it way upstairs. Right on time, we found it right at your description of where it would be. We were on the north loop at kirkpatrick at the diesel shop, not the bewt place to view thing with the lights of thecity, but we all saw the station and were all impressed with the size and speed of something that mankind put up there, really cool!! I always wanted to do that back then, but drag racing filled the void for a while. Gee, zero to 17,500 mph in about 8 minutes, what a ride!! whv |
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bobby
Aug 11th, 2008 - 10:26 AM |
Re: International Space Station
You're welcome. We watched it at the track saturday night and at the house last night. Had to turn some of the lights off at the house, but still a nice sight. If you ever hear about what they call the Crew Quarters goingup, we built those. We shipped 2 ove them to the Cape a couple of weeks ago and are finishing up the other two now. It is a personal pod about 4 fett by 4 feet by 6 1/2 feet that the astronauts can do their emailing, book reading, napping, etc. in. We built the first generation new lunar rover and building what is called Robonaut. It looks like the upper torso of a guys sitting on the hadlebars of a 4 wheeler. it's pretty cool working out here at NASA. |
Tom Douglas
Aug 11th, 2008 - 11:11 AM |
Re: International Space Station
We saw it night before last, THANKS BOBBY! my neighbor took a pretty cool picture of it with his little digital camera. I made fun of him for "taking pictures of a DOT".. Well... afterwards he increased the pictures size on his camera and you could actually SEE THE STATION! I'll see if I can get a copy of the picture and post it someplace Thanks again bobby! |
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Suni
Aug 11th, 2008 - 11:35 AM |
Re: International Space Station
That would be awesome. |
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bobby
Aug 11th, 2008 - 11:35 AM |
Re: International Space Station
That would be great Tommy.
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