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[Jay-qu]

Im planning on coming to america to see the last shuttle launch next year - I will be finished with my degree and going to do some travelling.

[Buffy]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

Im planning on coming to america to see the last shuttle launch next year - I will be finished with my degree and going to do some travelling.

Plan on spending at least a week in Orlando/Daytona Beach then!

I've seen one shuttle launch and one landing, both were sheer luck, the launch when a week delay meant the launch just happened to occur the day after a trade show I was at in Orlando and I was staying over to go to Disneyworld...the landing was last year when it just happened to land when the not-so-little-one and I were there on vacation.

These things are delayed *most* of the time, so the only way to be sure is to plan on the delay. Unfortunately even that's a crap shoot because the delays can be "let's roll it back into the VAB..." and it'll be another month before it goes off...

If you can though, it's truly an unexplainable event. When you're 5 miles away and the air *vibrates* you know it's something that's just plain outside of normal experience...

At any rate, good luck!

I suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole. Rapidly,
Buffy

[modest]

Originally Posted by sanctus

I actually was wondering at that too, college is usually during the day also in the US no?

Fancy Europeans with your fancy day-time colleges

~modest

[Mercedes Benzene]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

But Benzy, no power in the 'verse can stop you. Right?

What's the name of this flea-bag college that has so screwed up your priorities?????

UMass. They're obviously wack.

A Note On: Inconsiderate schedules.
MB

[Jay-qu]

Originally Posted by Buffy

Plan on spending at least a week in Orlando/Daytona Beach then!

I've seen one shuttle launch and one landing, both were sheer luck, the launch when a week delay meant the launch just happened to occur the day after a trade show I was at in Orlando and I was staying over to go to Disneyworld...the landing was last year when it just happened to land when the not-so-little-one and I were there on vacation.

These things are delayed *most* of the time, so the only way to be sure is to plan on the delay. Unfortunately even that's a crap shoot because the delays can be "let's roll it back into the VAB..." and it'll be another month before it goes off...

If you can though, it's truly an unexplainable event. When you're 5 miles away and the air *vibrates* you know it's something that's just plain outside of normal experience...

At any rate, good luck!

I suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole. Rapidly,
Buffy

Im not sure how long we will be able to hang around - so I am hoping luck goes our way, it would be a shame to miss the last one

[Pyrotex]

Yeah.
I missed one of the Saturn V launches, Apollo 12.
I forget now why me and my roommates decided not to go. We had the money, the time and the incentive. Somehow we talked ourselves out of it. I wish we hadn't.
We didn't know then that we would never have the opportunity again.

[TheBigDog]

I subscribe to the NASA newsletter that tells about the upcoming launch schedules. It includes the rocket launches in addition to the shuttle. I really want to see the shuttle go up, but I will settle for any space shot really. I am going to save my scheckles and take the boys to Florida to see the last shuttle launch.

Don't want to let 28+ years of opportunity pass me by.

Bill

[Moontanman]

A little OT but last night was a rare night launch of the Space Shuttle, if you drive down to corn cake inlet (you need a real 4X4, not a soccer Mom SUV) you can see the Space Shuttle as it climbs up over the horizon. Even from my stand point it's an impreserve sight. Alas last night it was heavy overcast with rain and you couldn't see a local super nova much less the Space Shuttle.

[sanctus]

Wouldn't the clouds have evaporated right away if the supernova was really local

[Pyrotex]

Okay, it's looking really official now!

I will be at Goddard Space Flight Center on Wednesday, April 15, 2009.

My hotel will be: Hampton Inn
9670 Baltimore Ave.
College Park, Maryland 20740

All Hypographers who want to meet me,
give me a call mid-day on the 15th, and I
will tell you what restaurant me and my wife, Gwen
will be eating at that evening!
We will meet you there!

281.797.9721 Huzzah!!!!