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re: Night launches are so cool.
Posted on 3/7/20 at 6:42 am to Gator515151
Posted on 3/7/20 at 6:42 am to Gator515151
Of the ~11 space shuttle launches I made it to, one was a night launch and one was just pre-dawn.
Indescribably epic, especially from the VAB (three miles).
To paraphase a Southwest Airlines employee I took to the countdown clock for the 2nd to last launch, in 2011...
JP, in my business we manage passengers, luggage, flight loads, fuel, and a bit of lift, thrust, and fight gravity and drag.
You guys sit there, for all mankind, and push a button that says to all... frick GRAVITY!
Indescribably epic, especially from the VAB (three miles).
To paraphase a Southwest Airlines employee I took to the countdown clock for the 2nd to last launch, in 2011...
JP, in my business we manage passengers, luggage, flight loads, fuel, and a bit of lift, thrust, and fight gravity and drag.
You guys sit there, for all mankind, and push a button that says to all... frick GRAVITY!
This post was edited on 3/7/20 at 6:49 am
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Posted on 3/7/20 at 6:51 am to JPinLondon
I grew up in Cocoa Beach. Until the movie the Right Stuff came out I never realized Alan Shepard, John Glenn & the boys were famous. Cocoa Beach was a very small town in the 60s and to us they were just neighbors.
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