Calling all nerds:
This is your last chance to see Discovery and the ISS at the same time when they separate, so check out this link, courtesy of Yahoo! and www.heavens-above.com
paste this link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110307/sc_space/lastchancetospotshuttlediscoveryinthenightskyever
Most people in the United States will get a chance to spot them, moving from the Northwest to the Southeast. If you go to www.heavens-above.com, click on the link near the top that asks for your location. You can enter the nearest large city and it will tell you where to look. It also keeps a real-time image of where the ISS is at any given time. It's lots of fun, plus you can look up the next Iridium flare, which is when the old satellites still in orbit spin around and reflect sunlight. They look a lot light shooting stars when that happens, which is more frequent than you might think.
Try it, it's fun!
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