Comments on: Next Shuttle launch: March 11 at 2:28 a.m.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:59:08 +0000

Wrote # MandyDax on 07 Mar 2008 at 4:48 pm
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BA: “Night launches are very cool, but I’m not sure I want to stay up past 1:00 local time to watch it all. We’ll see.”

Wait, you’re a diurnal astronomer? Hard to see the stars during the daytime.”
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Well there’s always one star up in the daytime sky - its the one located just one AU (or Astronomical Unit - The Earth-Sun dist. approx 140,000 million km I think.)

Plus sometimes if you look really closely at exactly the right spot there’ll be Venus visible as well!
Mandy Dax - Hmm … any relation of Jadzia Dax or the other ST : DS9 Dax symbiont there?

BTW. Posting this too late I guess but anyone know what time launch was for the astronauts? Having the ‘Endeavour’ crew up at 2.30 am to launch seems a bit er .. dangerously tiring … to me ..
Here in Adelaide, Oz it was well ..before 6 pm my time as that’s roughly when I heard it’d launched successfully with the ISS ’s Kibo module on my radio.

By: sts 123

sts 123 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:12:07 +0000

[…] on March 11, 2008, 10:11 amby admin best video: sts 123 foruser(); Next Shuttle launch: March 11 at 2:28 a.m. The next Space Shuttle launch, this time for Endeavour, is scheduled for March 11 at yikes 2:28 […]

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:53:42 +0000

If you can get near Ft. DeSoto park (just south west of St. Pete) the viewing is perfect from there. I know they close parts of the park after dark but you there is a campground so some areas must be open. It may be okay viewing from Tierra Verde just before you get to the park. I used to watch from there when I was in college in St. Pete. I’ll be watching this one (if I can stay awake) from Gainesville.

By: Mike Torr

Mike Torr — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:56:50 +0000

Well it will be 6:28am here in the UK. I’ll be watching it before I leave for work. Yay!

By: autumn

autumn — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:15:12 +0000

Ragutis,
Even evening launches are easily visible from the Gainesville area, so you should be able to see it at night, even though you have to look past Orlando.

By: Radwaste

Radwaste — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:48:18 +0000

As a guy who’s seen all the Saturn launches, I still have to say, if you can go, do. Several years ago my wife and I were in the Banana River on a boat for an early night launch in the fall, and we could watch the Shuttle clear to the horizon. Try Playalinda Beach for this one.

By: TheProbe

TheProbe — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:02:19 +0000

Ragutison 07 Mar 2008 at 4:58 pm
Where/how would I figure out whether the launch will be visible from the Tampa/St. Pete area? I’m often up that late, and with the number of launches winding down, will take what I can get.

Check the various websites. I use a NASA site to determine the lauch angle.

Years ago I saw Apollo 9 maneuvering while waiting to spring an ambush in Vietnam. That was pretty cool, too.