[MilCom] STS-131 Landing Ground Tracks

[Mike Riffle]

Get your radios ready, there's gonna be a cross-county landing track!
Barring any last minute problems (see below), the shuttle will cross the
US from northwest to southeast on Monday morning starting around 1223z
and ending at 1248z with a landing at KSC. As it stands now this will be
the last cross-country landing track ever! Listen on 259.7 tomorrow
morning for any air-to-ground comms.

Landing ground tracks:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts131/news/landing.html

Javascript to predict the flyover time at your locale:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html

There is a chance weather may impact Monday's landing. Should they wave
off the first attempt the second will be roughly 90 minutes later. Should
they wave off all attempts on Monday, Tuesday is looking much better with
the first landing attempt roughly 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Keeping my fingers crossed for some comms, maybe a visual, and the sonic
booms!


Mike Riffle
Cataula, GA