Bob King wrote: > Hi everyone, > I've been a member of this list a long time and have heard mention > over the years of water dumps from the space shuttle. I just finished > watching the double flyby of Discovery and the ISS under a partly > cloudy sky at 1:38 UT. While the station looked like a brilliant star > that faded and brightened as it went through clouds, Discovery had a > faint, curved, tail-like appendage that extended about a degree (maybe > 1.5 degrees at most) to the southwest. It remained visible throughout > the pass. Was this a water dump or ...? If it was, it's my first > sighting of such. Thanks for your help. Indeed it was. Page 3-44 of the execute package, lists several water dumps to be carried out by Pilot Ford, over a several hour period around the time of your observation: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/385020main_fd13_exec_pkg.pdf Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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