Discovery Heading Home

Kailash Nadh wrote to mention an ABC News article discussing Discovery's departure from the space station, heading for Terra Firma. From the article: "Once undocked, Discovery looped around the space station for the first full photographic survey of the orbiting outpost since the last shuttle visit in late 2002, and then sped away into the blackness. Discovery's astronauts awoke Saturday evening for a day of storing away equipment for their upcoming return. They also planned to take down an antenna, which they have used to transmit video images of the mission. "

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Southern Hemisphere

[jurt1235]

Oh, just wait till the poles of the earth reverse will you, than you have the Aurora. The space shuttle fireballs are restricted to northern hemisphre only, but maybe the chinese are willing to let some of their equipment spin out of control so you get a fireball at the southern hemisphere too (I know, china is still on the northern too, but still a bit closer to the south, so maybe you just get lucky).

Meteors: Just wait, there must be one which will hit the south one day again, you have Ayers rock just to remind you of a really good fireball.