The Rockateers

I've been on a deep space kick-- wait, make that near space kick- and word got around that JI.VA.* actaully watches launches live on his computer. Now this shit I just gotta see.

Wait- you wanna see as well?

Try these, sent by JI.VA. with original annotations by him:

Here's the NASA page for their upcoming launches:http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html

This is a cool site: http://www.heavens-above.com/main.aspx ((::Hilts Note:: Iv'e had trouble w/ link= cut and paste the address and y'll do just fine)). It shows when the International Space Station, the Shuttle, various satellites and visible space junk is flying overhead. You have to enter the coordinates of your viewing site.

This page can tell you that: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

The heavens-above page has info on when to see Iridium flares which are momentary relections of sunlight off of Iridium phone system satellites. I'll** attach a photo I took of one.

Back to Hilts:: Tried the various formulas, and it's preddy nice. I'd like to go see the Space Shuttle launch live-all that Fire-but it'll have to wait.




*=sometimes I can't stick to just one name.

**= JI.VA.