Space Shuttle Launch Visible from East Coast

People in the eastern United States will get a great opportunity, weather permitting, to see the space shuttle Discovery launched into orbit early Tuesday morning. And it might also be the final opportunity ever to see a nighttime shuttle launch. This flight (STS-128) will be the 30th to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station (ISS), and the glow of the shuttle's engines will be visible along much of the Eastern Seaboard. A SPACE.com map shows the area of visibility. To reach the space station, Discovery must be launched when Earth's rotation carries the launch pad into the plane of the station's orbit. More

(Source: Space.com - Aug 24)