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- jamez, on 07/11/2008, -0/+8Hopefully I can touch it one day too!
- DrivinWest, on 07/12/2008, -0/+8I've worked in mission control for the ISS for the last 9 years. It's easy to forget just how amazingly cool this job is when we're working 13 hour graveyard shifts, dealing with PITA (albeit necessary) protocol, and dealing with exceptionally difficult technical issues. Once in a while during a telemetry outage we'll go outside to watch the ISS fly over. It really helps to remind ourselves why we do it.
Next stop Luna! - LEPT0N, on 07/12/2008, -1/+7"That's no moon... "
- BossKey, on 07/12/2008, -0/+5They'll make it an orbiting museum, where people will marvel at the quaint old tech that Earth once paid $100 billion for.
No one will expect it to see active duty again...but the Cylon attack will change all that. - youthinkicare, on 07/12/2008, -0/+4Heavens-above.com is great, it'll give you 10-day outlooks, let you record your sightings, and can help you catch iridium flares.
Watching the ISS fly over is a great show, dead silent, but the fastest, brightest thing in the sky. It comes by more often then you might think, all you need to do it keep checking Heavens-Above.
Be sure to join, so you can store your location. Otherwise, the website will go back to 0-0 - drunkwally, on 07/12/2008, -0/+3I don't live in a country with a space program, but thanks for doing what you do. The ISS is the best thing humans are doing right now. LHC is kind of cool but not space cool.
- inactive, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3I was fortunate enough to see it pass over my neck of the woods April this year when Atlantis was docked to it. The beautiful clear evening allowed me to watch it streak across the sky for a full 5 minutes. Breathtaking!
- LuxFX, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2For anybody that didn't follow all of the links in the articles -- go to http://www.heavens-above.com/ and plug in your lat/lon to get exact times for ISS passes and other shuttle/satellite events
- youthinkicare, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2Atlantis, probably, but I doubt the ISS will make it back to earth anything less than smoldering metal pieces. After a couple decades, they'll probably just let it fall to earth, just like MIR. Sad way to go actually, it's going to be full of history when it goes.
- GoatRoper, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2An even better treat is watching it go over while the space shuttle is moving in to dock or just leaving, THAT is a good show.
- Mootabolife, on 07/12/2008, -0/+2It'll be in a museum someday..
- ASSASSYN360, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1"Lock in the auxiliary unit chewie full reverse..."
- RunnyBabbit, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Having a little trouble making sense of the site, but thanks for the link. I'll play with it a bit more, if I can just ask how to decipher the table at
http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25 ... - gavinhudson, on 07/11/2008, -1/+2I picked the wrong time to move to Asia!
- withoutamartyr, on 07/12/2008, -2/+3http://xkcd.com/307/
- colifis, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1Aside from the sun and moon, it's basically the brightest object I've ever seen in the night sky.
- rinpoche, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1The breakthroughs in technology that the space program has produced are astounding. We take things many things for granted that we enjoy today. I hope our politicians continue to keep space a priority.
- ihate2regist, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1wow just three more minutes for me
- Rudegar, on 07/12/2008, -4/+0will there be a live demonstration
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