Okay, just in case some of you check in here in time to help with seeing tonight's passage...

NASA has a website (of course) for figuring out when satellites, including space shuttles and the ISS, will be particularly visible (they're flying over us all the time, it's only when you're in twilight but the space vessel is in sunlight that you get such bright views).

So, the NASA site:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html

You don't need to download their fancy "SkyWatch" applet software, unless you have this need for keeping track of almost all the satellites out there. Just take the option on the upper left (Sighting Opportunities), fill in the country you're sitting in at the moment, and go. Subsequent menus will take you down to state or province, and then major cities.

And no, Sylvery... they're passing much too quickly to be ten minutes apart between thee and me. Looks like your passage is also 10:23 tonight, with the space station ahead of the shuttle by almost a minute. (Was I wrong in my photos? The news release I saw said the shuttle would be in front, but perhaps that brightest light in my pictures is the ISS?) Should pass from WNW to SE.

And yes, Melissa, you can see it, too. Lest you have clouds, or too many trees. Chart says you should be able to see them for about two minutes, passing from north to northeast at 9:20. If I read it right, they won't get too high in the sky for you, so you might want to get down on the soccer fields and have a clear view to the north. (You also get a very brief second glimpse, in the northwest, around 10:55 tonight.)

And if anyone comes across this information after tonight's passage, don't despair. Unless things change for the shuttle's schedule, NASA predicts we will be able to watch both manned space objects again on the 21st, and for some places, on the 22nd and 23rd.

Happy spaceship viewing...