Is there a space shuttle coming in tonight?

"Shamoononon drives like a farmer" (shamoononon) 09/24/2017 at 02:34 • Filed to: None

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Just saw something come through the atmosphere. It was pretty neat and not an asteroid. Had a type of halo behind it. After googling looks like it was caused by a heat shield from the craft. Not aliens. San Diego, Ca.

Nick Has an Exocet > Shamoononon drives like a farmer 09/24/2017 at 02:49

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Nothing that I know of but it could have also been debris.

http://www.aerospace.org/cords/reentry-predictions/upcoming-reentries-2-2/

DipodomysDeserti > Shamoononon drives like a farmer 09/24/2017 at 02:54

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Pretty sure the last space shuttle was retired over six years ago...

Bro, do you even current events?

Maybe North Korea wasn’t bluffing.

Shamoononon drives like a farmer > DipodomysDeserti 09/24/2017 at 03:09

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Yeah, that did come off silly. I know NASA isn’t sending people to the moon anymore, however they still send people off to space stations and have unmanned crafts as well.

Shamoononon drives like a farmer > Nick Has an Exocet 09/24/2017 at 03:14

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Thank you! Will keep my eye on that in the next day or so.

facw > DipodomysDeserti 09/24/2017 at 03:18

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Indeed check out that North Korean shuttle, bringing death and destruction for us all:

Shamoononon drives like a farmer > facw 09/24/2017 at 03:26

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Stop. This wasn’t political and I’m not a nut. At least I hope not.

DipodomysDeserti > Shamoononon drives like a farmer 09/24/2017 at 03:33

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NASA hasn’t sent anyone to moon since 1972. I think all of our astronauts hitch rides on Russian rockets now. Not sure how they get back down though.

Shamoononon drives like a farmer > DipodomysDeserti 09/24/2017 at 03:41

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I understand. I both work with air crafts and have seen rockets sent from Edwards (albeit last one I saw launched was ~10 years ago, satellite?). Something with a heat shield entered our atmosphere. I’m on my forth beer but was sober when I saw it. Pretty cool. It was not an asteroid. Could have easily been a crashing satellite though.

DipodomysDeserti > Shamoononon drives like a farmer 09/24/2017 at 03:45

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Being near San Diego, it could have been anything. Lots of military stuff over there.

Shamoononon drives like a farmer > DipodomysDeserti 09/24/2017 at 03:55

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Well, regardless, coolest thing I’ve focused on in a while. Thanks for reading. Thanks for replies.

Art Vandelay Silva > Shamoononon drives like a farmer 09/24/2017 at 04:16

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You work with air crafts and saw it after your forth beer. Yeah, it was a space shuttle for sure.

Xyl0c41n3 > DipodomysDeserti 09/24/2017 at 04:45

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Soyuz capsules. They’re very tight fits.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Shamoononon drives like a farmer 09/24/2017 at 09:05

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Well the last shuttle was grounded in 2011 so it probably wasn’t a shuttle.

RacinBob > Shamoononon drives like a farmer 09/24/2017 at 09:58

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Not so fast.... there are space shuttles, just no manned ones at the moment

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/07/space-plane-sonic-boom-florida/101416512/

Nick Has an Exocet > Shamoononon drives like a farmer 09/24/2017 at 14:29

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No problem. Also saw this today: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-satellite-launch-20170923-story.html

Shamoononon drives like a farmer > Nick Has an Exocet 09/24/2017 at 16:03

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Thanks! That’s the exact timing. Must be it. Looked like it was coming down, but this has to be it.

Nick Has an Exocet > Shamoononon drives like a farmer 09/24/2017 at 16:39

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Yep, depends on your perspective. Rockets don’t go straight up - to reach orbit they curve over into a high speed orbit. Depending on your perspective, it could look like it was coming down.

In my day job, I work at a company that has launched 51 satellites in 3 years ;)