Sweeeeeeeeet

At work last night, the watch supervisor came up and told us that the space shuttle, attached to the space station, was going to pass right over Tucson at 8:24. It was supposed to be the brightest light in the sky at that time. At first we were watching something else and then saw a "low", fast moving light in the direction of Pheonix. We were sure that was it because it only took about 45 seconds to move from the Grand Canyon to Tucson! It was about 250 miles above us traveling at 17000 mph. It looked like an airplane doing normal speed at 5000 to 10000 feet. It was an awesome sight. About an hour and a half later it was back over California; it had completed an entire orbit around the earth. Here's a link to see where it is now and get some other info on the flight and crew.