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    Sonic Boom- Shuttle Landing

    Did anyone hear the sonic boom, about an hour ago? It was the shuttle passing overhead, wish it would have been clearer skies. I was out on the dock checking the crab traps when I heard it, nearly fell in the bayou!
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    Quote Originally Posted by chrisv View Post
    Did anyone hear the sonic boom, about an hour ago? It was the shuttle passing overhead, wish it would have been clearer skies. I was out on the dock checking the crab traps when I heard it, nearly fell in the bayou!
    Yes I was watching it on NASA TV and knew it was passing over us but figured I wouldn't be able to see it because of the clouds. It was quite loud and from the tracking on the monitor it looked like it was already over Central Florida when I heard it.

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    I'm JEALOUS!!! I didn't notice a thing!

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    We not only heard the sonic boom, we saw the Shuttle. I'd say we were out there watching it for maybe ten minutes.
    The younger son warned us way ahead of time so we went up on our rickety balcony to see. All my tired old eyes saw was the contrail, but the kid said (in his own words) that between the patchy clouds he could see the Shuttle "glinting in the sun." (He's kind of a space geek. )

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    I just talked to my Mom who's north of Orlando. She said it just about scared her to death! But it was really cool.

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    We heard it pretty clearly here, but it was too cloudy to see anything.

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    I was wondering what that noise was!
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    only 18 more landings to go - thank heavens they're back safely

    atlantis is next to fly in february

    yep, i'm a space geek too

    seen two launches - i always wanted to moon the world on national tv right in front of the big countdown clock, at less than 5 seconds cause they can't stop it or the tv coverage then, but never dared it

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    The windows in O-town rattled mightily! Watched on the Nasa channel because we were mostly cloudy.

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