In searching for the Iridium flares article, I just found that the paper does have online a copy of the story they published a few months ago regarding a Shuttle-Mir pass over Austin: http://austin360.com:80/news/10oct/03/sight3.htm This one includes an amusing color photo of Mike McCants and me looking up into the sky (seemingly not in exactly the same direction), but it identifies Mike as me and me as Mike.... We had a good laugh when the photo was being taken! The weather turned out good for the Shuttle-Mir pass, and at work after that several people told me that they saw them! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA