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Space Shuttle Seen in Altoona

By: Ben Manning
Updated: April 6, 2010
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ALTOONA, BLAIR COUNTY - Folks in Altoona got a space age treat.


You could see the Shuttle Discovery from Wopsy Mountain about six minutes after takeoff.


At that point, Discovery was nearly six-hundred miles from here, and about 60 miles above the earth. And it was going about 17 thousand miles per hour.


This is the first time a morning twilight launch took the shuttle on a flight path along the east coast.

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