Just saw the ISS and Endeavour pass over as it came into an orbital sunrise, the two spacecraft about 1km apart as they were completing a so-called STORRM maneuver, where the Shuttle had already undocked about an hour prior, but rather than do another sep burn, they instead let orbital mechanics allow Endeavour to drift back towards the ISS to within 950' before the orbital mechanics once again separated them. I caught them just minutes after they did their sep-3 burn to send them away from one another for the final time ever. The pass was hitting orbital sunrise across the Eastern US as the pair made their way towards New England. They were clearly two objects side- by-side, and using binocs I could make out the ISS as the larger object with a rust-colored hue, the Endeavour slightly smaller, to the north of the ISS, and white. I'm gonna miss the Shuttle when it's retired. Seeing them always was worth the lack of sleep. I hope my kids forgive me for making them get up out of bed to experience the awesome. Greg Williams gregwilliams@knology.net k4hsm@knology.net _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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