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LenSatic
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Dec 02, 2014

Naked-eye astronomy is more than just meteors.

For you meteor hunters out there in the boonies, there is other visible stuff buzzing around up there: satellites. The easiest to see is the International Space Station. It’s extremely bright and, w...
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LenSatic
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Aug 23, 2015
DAS26miles wrote:
Lensatic-

I know, I know. The DW and I wave.


I don't think that I ever mentioned it on this site, but two crew members of the Shuttle Challenger were known to my family. Greg Jarvis was a neighbor that I, personally, never formally met but my wife knew his wife. Ron McNair worked with my father-in-law at the Hughes Research Center in Malibu.

Had they had the chance, they would have waved back. ;)

Pat

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