SO, you dot not swear that the Shuttle disappeared
"behind the horizon", when you saw a launch of a Shuttle,
because the Shuttle DID NOT DISAPPEAR BEHIND THE HORIZON!

No, It became to hard to track visually during day launches.


HA! TYPICAL COVERUP EXCUSE!

However, it was in orbit and back in view within 100 minutes of launch
through the telescope at my one night launch. (We had a motor failure
that stopped the smooth tracking during launch.)


How do you know that it was not a meteor stone
that you saw 100 minutes later?