PiggyBack Shuttle Fly Over

[Celestron]

Just to let anyone in the Southern USA know that you may have a great opportunity for the last Shuttle PiggyBack ride Fly Over imaging session !! This is suppose to be the very last time for the Shuttle so if your interested in this opportunity and you have clear weather you need to bookmark the link below and keep up with it constantly throught the weekend cause when it starts and the path it takes is critical for this opportunity . Good Luck and if you get any pictures post them in this thread . Hopefully the moderators wont move this topic to another section where it can't be found in time to be read by everyone who has a chance . Remember this is a part of History ending for the USA and hope you have a chance to be part of it ! Good luck and remember post images here please for all to see !

PiggyBack Shuttle Fly Over (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html)

[Adrena1in]

Fingers crossed my 11" SCT will be up and running...will try for some close-ups.

[Celestron]

Ok everyone , heres the story from NASA with a link included : NASA SHUTTLE FLYOVER (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html) . Anyone in Arizona , New Mexico , Amarillo Tx , Louisiana , And Southern USA to Florida need be ready for the trip over head . Use a scope , big lens what ever on a tripod !! Good luck and post your pics here if you get some . Amarillo & Shrevport La. especially be ready !!!!



Shuttle managers plan to begin the cross-country ferry flight trip for Discovery on its modified 747 aircraft Sunday morning, shortly before sunrise at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Managers met with the air crew and weather team at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center this afternoon. They discussed the weather forecast for the next several days and formulated a tentative plan for the route and refueling stops along the way back to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Weather permitting, the plan is to have Discovery leave Edwards at about 9:20 a.m. EDT Sunday. The flight's "pathfinder" support aircraft will depart about 20 minutes earlier. The 747 and pathfinder then will head to the first refueling stop at Rick Husband International Airport in Amarillo, Texas.
Depending on the weather, the teams plan one additional stop before ending their travel day at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana tomorrow afternoon.
Managers expect to be able to reach Kennedy from Barksdale on Monday without any additional stops.‬‪‪
The low pressure weather system that forecasters have been monitoring for the last several days is expected to begin moving to the northeast and that would allow the ferry flight to reach Barksdale tomorrow.
Shuttle teams finished preparations overnight for the 2,500 mile flight, including fully attaching Discovery to the top of the 747, known as a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, and moving the piggybacked pair into position to be ready for tomorrow's departure.
The teams will have an additional weather briefing Sunday at 7 a.m. EDT before their 9:20 a.m. expected departure from Edwards.

[Ripskin]

Bugger. Too long of a drive from Dallas and tomorrow is my only day off too. ::Fingers crossed they divert to Fort Worth::

[Hulka]

I am in Phoenix, I will look up more often but doubt it will be by here.

[Celestron]

Unless it already took off it should have already landed in Amarillo Texas . Way to far north for me to see from here :( . Next stop at Shrevport La. Hope someone is able to see it !

[Ripskin]

Sigh, I get called into work and agree to go in early as theres no news on anything. I get to work and check the updates around 6 and find that the Shuttle was in Fort Worth for a while.

[Celestron]

Sigh, I get called into work and agree to go in early as theres no news on anything. I get to work and check the updates around 6 and find that the Shuttle was in Fort Worth for a while.

So sad :( , you could have got some great pictures ! But look on www.spaceweather.com (http://www.spaceweather.com) , they have some picts taken at Ft.Worth and else where .

[Eliza Rain]

I saw it! Yet was unable to get photos because my camera was at home! (was in the car) It was close to landing too!

[Jon Foster]

Man, I would have loved to see this...

Jon.

[Jeff]

I saw a shot in the Transportation section:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=755787

[Celestron]

Yep , that is a great shot !