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re: Next week's manned spaceflight from Cape Kennedy will be historic...
Posted on 5/20/20 at 7:35 pm to MoarKilometers
Posted on 5/20/20 at 7:35 pm to MoarKilometers
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My grandpa worked for McDonnell Douglas 40+ years building space shite. We watched countless launches on the river side of us1... right next to where the miracle city mall was. Great free spot to watch from. Countless similar areas up and down the Indian river
So cool. Can you pinpoint an area of US1 that you might suggest or in the vicinity? I saw an Atlas 5 years ago from the reviewing stand.
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Posted on 5/20/20 at 7:38 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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The shuttle system is a piece of shite.
Are you forgetting how often they launched the shuttles up until Challenger? There were a shite ton of military missions which are still classified. (I wouldn't be surprised if the SDI is up there in some form.) I believe at least a few of the GPS satellites went up there as military payloads. When they weren't doing that they were carrying most of the major components of the space station. In fact that's the main reason they launched those missions after Columbia.
Without it there's no way they could do things like repairing Hubble and giving it, satellites, and the space station a bit of a boost into their optimal operating heights.
This post was edited on 5/20/20 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 5/20/20 at 7:45 pm to MSUDawg98
Posted on 5/20/20 at 7:47 pm to Kafka
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They didn't name it after Teddy this time???
I believe they are hoping the launch vehicle doesn’t end up beneath a bridge in the river.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 7:49 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Some reason I have a bad feeling about this...No test launches and now with live human beings..down vote away. Old days they used chimps. And yes I watched the 60's launches, some live at the Cape....
Posted on 5/20/20 at 7:58 pm to LetsgoGamecocks
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So cool. Can you pinpoint an area of US1 that you might suggest or in the vicinity? I saw an Atlas 5 years ago from the reviewing stand.
The pin is at the old mall location, us-1 and Harrison. Grandma got moved to southern brevard county, so it's been a couple years since I've driven this stretch. The mall was torn down, but I presume the parking lot is still there and intact. The field was just south of the post office, directly across us-1. Always brought chairs, adults may have packed a cooler.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:04 pm to MoarKilometers
This is great thanks. 
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:06 pm to Shoalwater Cat
Sending chimps into space is how they checked their math. Today we have computers
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:09 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Actually Bush killed off the Space Shuttle.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:12 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Space shuttle we are regressing to 1975 tech.
Why are you the way you are
I've never seen someone so confident about things he has no clue about
I'll admit it's a fairly solid schtick to carve out
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:18 pm to Tbonepatron
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Forgive my ignorance, but how did we get people into space not atop a rocket for the last 45 years?
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:19 pm to TigerGman
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Actually Bush killed off the Space Shuttle.
True but he immediately replaced it with a program that would've had us to the moon by now if Barry didn't cancel it. That's one of the big reasons why despite all the NYers migrating, the I-4 corridor is still competitive for Republicans. Sadly that's starting to trail off with Schiff's impeachment bitch Demmings in Congress (district full of low lifes and Orlando's prostitute alley) and her husband runs Orange County.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:21 pm to Shoalwater Cat
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No test launches
Yeah that is just wrong. LINK
I trust Elon and Space-X a hell of a lot more than NASA
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:25 pm to MSUDawg98
I actually support the folks at launch control at Kennedy. I was fortunate to get a visit to launch control and vehicle assembly building back in the winter. Really cool place!! Can't wait to go back... hope to see a launch from there one day.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:25 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:26 pm to Pettifogger
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I've never seen someone so confident about things he has no clue about
Often wrong, but never in doubt.
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I'll admit it's a fairly solid schtick to carve out
Filling a niche?
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:27 pm to ksayetiger
It's a shame the final shuttle mission ended with so little fanfare. It landed in the pre-dawn dark of California, when most Americans were still asleep.
A daytime landing and runway celebration would have been a great tribute to one of most amazing and accomplished space vehicles in human history. All the people who lived and died to make it go deserved the recognition, too.
A daytime landing and runway celebration would have been a great tribute to one of most amazing and accomplished space vehicles in human history. All the people who lived and died to make it go deserved the recognition, too.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:31 pm to MSUDawg98
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Are you forgetting how often they launched the shuttles up until Challenger? There were a shite ton of military missions which are still classified. (I wouldn't be surprised if the SDI is up there in some form.) I believe at least a few of the GPS satellites went up there as military payloads. When they weren't doing that they were carrying most of the major components of the space station. In fact that's the main reason they launched those missions after Columbia.
100% certain the Saturn IB could do this. It took our last space station up
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Without it there's no way they could do things like repairing Hubble and giving it, satellites, and the space station a bit of a boost into their optimal operating heights.
Speaking of shuttle and original space station... any guess on whose delay let skylab fall out of orbit, without an attempt at rescue?
Space station Mir was mainly launched via rocket as well. I think 1 piece went up via shuttle. Had we not lost skylab waiting for the shuttle, spacelab shuttle missions become a lot less relevant scientifically because we'd already have a place to do them 24/7.
I like trucks, shuttles suck.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:34 pm to Kafka
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I thought they changed it back to Canaveral?
Officially it is the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) located on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Yea, the name was once simply Cape Canaveral and commonly known as The Cape. Then post JFK assassination it became known as Cape Kennedy. Then it reverted back to Cape Canaveral, the home of the Kennedy Space Center.
Some local on here might fill in more details and timeline.
Posted on 5/20/20 at 8:34 pm to Tbonepatron
quote:Wtf?
Forgive my ignorance, but how did we get people into space not atop a rocket for the last 45 years?
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