The shuttle has landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Many reports of Alabamians hearing the sonic boom as the shuttle flew overhead around 8:00. Did you hear it?

SECOND CHANCE FOR SHUTTLE SIGHTINGS: Monday’s planned landing of space shuttle Discovery was waved off because of bad weather in Florida. The postponement sets the stage for another try on Tuesday. Once again, Discovery is slated to reenter Earth’s atmosphere over the continental United States, and many sky watchers–especially in the northwestern USA and neighboring [...]

From spaceweather.com… NASA has just released new ground tracks for Tuesday morning’s scheduled landing of space shuttle Discovery. Once again, US sky watchers are favored. Discovery is expected to pass near or directly above many towns and cities such as Minneapolis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Jacksonville en route to a 7:34 am EDT (6:34 a.m. [...]

Ceilings too low…visibilities too low at Cape Canaveral in Florida So the Shuttle landing is a no-go for today. We will get you some information on the track if the weather improves for tomorrow’s landing opportunities. They start at Kennedy Space Center at 6:33 a.m. CDT.

NASA has scrubbed the first landing opportunity this morning due to inclement weather at the landing site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida… so no sonic boom for Alabama around 7:30. However, they are still holding open the chance of a “second opportunity” landing at 9:23 a.m. CDT/10:23 EDT. If the weather improves in [...]

The first landing opportunity has been waved off by controller due to clouds and showers near the landing site at Cape Canaveral. It looks like there might be enough improvement for a second chance at 9:23 a.m. CDT. Unfortunately clouds have thickened across Central Alabama, which could inhibit our ability to see the shuttle pass [...]

Images Courtesy NASA Space Weather News for April 18, 2010 http://spaceweather.com SPACE SHUTTLE RE-ENTRY: On Monday morning, April 19th, space shuttle Discovery will make a rare “descending node” reentry over the continental United States. The returning spacecraft will pass over or close to many towns and cities en route to landing in Florida at 8:48 [...]

From NOAA: GOES-15, launched on March 4 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., joins three other NOAA operational GOES spacecraft that help the agency’s forecasters track life-threatening weather – from tornadoes, floods and hurricanes — and solar activity that can impact the satellite-based electronics and communications industry. The black and white full-disk image shows North and South [...]

Twelve days after a perfect launch, NASA and NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) reached its proper orbit. This action triggers the renaming of the satellite to GOES-15. The latest weather satellite will complete its checkout in mid August 2010 and be stored in-orbit, ready for activation should one of the operational GOES satellites degrade [...]

Space Shuttle mission STS-128 is set to takeoff within the hour. The weather is go for launch and return to launch site. Earlier storms have dissipated or are in the process of dissipating outside the critical circles. There are no technical issues. Liftoff is scheduled for 10:59 p.m. CDT. NASA Shuttle Launch Blog NASA TV