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Old 06-20-2007, 07:53 PM
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Default Re: watched the space shuttle

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Originally Posted by timgco
Took the HUMMER up the road last evening into a large dark field. I need an excuse to get if off road!

The shuttle undocked from the international space station. We watched both of them lit up in the sky. They were very bright and looked like they were over the top of us. From what i read they were 45 miles apart (looked like about 12" apart) and were traveling at 18,000 miles an hour. DAMN! 45 miles is only about 1/2 second aprat than!

Anyhow, thought it was very cool! Here's a link from 9 news
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=72291

The pics/ vid they show did not do it justice! We watched them through a nice pair of Bushnell's for the 2 minutes they were visible.

I know the HUMMER enjoyed it! He hans't been off road in a while. He got to use all 8 of his off road lights, plow through the field, flex out over some dips/ dirt mounds, and got a thumb's up from some guy who was watching from the space shuttle .....

wow, thats great....
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