06 Feb 2010 @ 10:48 PM 
 

Stay Up Late Tonight to Watch The Last Nighttime Shuttle Launch Ever [Reminder]

 

Via: Stay Up Late Tonight to Watch The Last Night­time Shut­tle Launch Ever [Reminder]

If you live any­where on the East Coast and are at all inter­ested in cool stuff that hap­pens in the sky, you’d be remiss not to stay up late tonight to watch for the last ever night­time shut­tle launch.

Or you could wake up early, that works too. Either way, at 4:39 A.M. early tomor­row morn­ing NASA will launch the Endeavor space shut­tle, and it will be the last time it does so at night.

On its way up to the Inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion, the shut­tle will fly par­al­lel to America’s east­ern seaboard and the shuttle’s rock­ets will thus be vis­i­ble to a sur­pris­ingly huge area, weather per­mit­ting. Here’s a map of where the rocket will be in the first ten min­utes after launch and what areas of the coun­try will be able to see it:

I told you it was a sur­pris­ingly huge area! To find out more about what you’re look­ing for and where exactly you should be look­ing for it, check out Space.com’s com­pre­hen­sive run­down of the late night launch. [Space.com]

– Weather When Posted –

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  • Humid­ity: 89%;
  • Heat Index: 52°F;
  • Wind Chill: 52°F;
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Tags Categories: Technology Posted By: Eric
Last Edit: 06 Feb 2010 @ 10 52 PM

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