By Marianne Y (Marianne) on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 11:31 pm:
Yes, the space shuttle is up there, but it is docked at the space station. And, NASA just added 2 days to their stay so they can try to repair the insulation cloth or whatever it is, that is sticking out between tiles on the shuttle. That will likely require a spacewalk or use of a robotic arm. I would be surprised if you saw the shuttle when it is docked on the space station.
But, you might well have seen a satellite, or something. We used to live in Houston, and we could watch the Apollo & other manned space flights go back, when they flew over. Those things moved across the horizon fast & sometimes almost looked like a shooting star. NASA would post the schedule of when they would be visible where.
I was really into NASA stuff, taking all the heavy math & science courses in high school & college, hoping to be an astronaut one day. I somehow didn't find out until later that they were only accepting guys back then. :-(
By jeremy rowe (Rowejm51) on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - 05:49 pm:
Interesting fact... at one given time the most stars a person can see in the sky is about 2000..