Space Shuttle's "Return to Flight"

Ghoulish Delight · 07-26-2005, 03:33 PM

I've been to Cape Canaveral and visited the Space Center, but there was nothing going on. No shuttle in sight, just the huge land crawler they use to transport it to the gantry. I've never even had the opportunity to get up to Edwards to see one land, let alone witness a launch first hand. It's on my long list of spectacles I really hope to see.

Matterhorn Fan · 07-27-2005, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I've never even had the opportunity to get up to Edwards to see one land, let alone witness a launch first hand. It's on my long list of spectacles I really hope to see.

Me too. If only I'd had the day off, I would have tried to convince someone to go out there with me. I don't know where the public can watch from, but I want to see it actually leave the ground. With the rumbling and the fire and all that. (Except not the exploding Challenger-like stuff. That was bad enough on TV. I'm not sure how I'd hold up witnessing something like that live.)

No one here seems interested, though. It's an attitude of "oh, they're doing that again."

Silly native Floridians. I wouldn't think something like a shuttle launch would really ever get "old." It's not that commonplace.

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