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[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

The Shuttle is scheduled to land on Monday, taking an Northeasterly path to Florida.

Grady!...

It appears that the Shutle may be within your field of view, low on the horizon...can you confirm this??

[Rocketman]

I could look to see, but I thought it came West to East...

I saw Discovery this morning. It was separated by less than the width of a pinky finger from ISS. Real cool!

[Rocketman]

The TLE data for STS-114 as of today does show it to be making a Northeastward pass by here. I will be monitoring the data. I'll definitely be outside ahead of time to see if I can hear it come by

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Grady,

Would your camcorder be sensitive enough to capture the glide path of the Shuutle's return? It would be quite cool to not olny get the image, but the sound as well.

Just leave the camera running in the general direction, never know what you might get!

[Rocketman]

I doubt that it would be sensitive enough.

[Rocketman]

It's getting about nail biting time

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Well,

The landing has been postponed a couple of hours.

Let's see.

Good luck to the crew.