Author Topic: Fun flight - live (Read 254 times)

Chairboy · « **on:** October 29, 2007, 08:45:44 PM »

A NASA flight in progress, check out the speeds & altitudes. Nice circles, heh:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA806

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #1 on:** October 29, 2007, 08:49:44 PM »

Pretty cool

Now If I only knew of someone on a plane right now.

Oh well I'll just haveta wait till my mom comes up to visit in Dec

Mark Luper · « **Reply #2 on:** October 29, 2007, 08:52:15 PM »

I wonder what it is that they are researching at "only" 60,000 ft. It's not like there hasn't been ample opportunity for research much higher.

Mark

Pooh21 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 29, 2007, 09:09:40 PM »

My favorite flight. Only 6 more months til I get a months vacation saved up. And a plane load of lucky bastages will be at my house in less then 4 hours.

Chairboy · « **Reply #4 on:** October 29, 2007, 09:09:57 PM »

Hmm... I've been trying to figure out what they're doing. Check this out:

http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/Spacecraft.html

Control-click on the icon for the shuttle, it'll pass close to that flight in an hour or so, I bet they'll be photographing it.

Mark Luper · « **Reply #5 on:** October 29, 2007, 09:28:19 PM »

I guess I'm dumb, I don't know which one is the shuttle.

Mark

Donzo · « **Reply #6 on:** October 29, 2007, 09:34:12 PM »

Where is that NASA flight? I don't see the shuttle passing over US.

Donzo · « **Reply #7 on:** October 29, 2007, 09:40:18 PM »

The shuttle can be found by clicking the Human Space Flight Web site’s Orbital Tracking page link on the left.

Currently it shows the shuttle docked to the International Space Station somewhere over India.

Chairboy · « **Reply #8 on:** October 29, 2007, 10:00:07 PM »

Coming down now, guess it wasn't photoing the shuttle after all, it's down to 20k now.

Pooh21 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 29, 2007, 10:53:42 PM »

Since I posted I have been hitting refresh every once in a while on this FedEx flight from about 1 minute after takeoff and at this time it is half way across the US. That is a interesting site