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Originally posted by tinydancer
AlphaSig, did you hear it in Plano? I'm in east Fort Worth and it was LOUD.
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Unfortunately, did not hear it in Plano... my mother called me to the TV when she heard the news. There was an unconfirmed report (mentioned earlier in this thread) that some debris did land in east Plano, about five miles from where I live.
I have seen the reentry of a Shuttle a few years back when I was living in San Antonio. Again, I never heard the sonic boom but we could easily see the 'fireball' and contrail as it zoomed across the San Antonio sky. San Antonio and Kennedy Space Center are approximately the same latitude (N 28 degrees).
I remember reading that the orbital inclination for this mission STS-107 was 39 degrees (the maximum orbital inclination from the Cape launches is 57.6 degrees; International Space Station missions are flown at 51.6).