http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35259167/ns/technology_and_science-space/ This article says we might be able to see it. I may get DS up. :hurray: As a kid, we got to watch a launch right across from the launch pad. (Great grandparents lived near Cape Canaveral) I'll never forget the sound. It was awe-inpiring. 8)
4:39 am on a Sunday is mighty early to be standing goagles in hand in a rain soaked yard but it would be really cool to see it. I think it was on New Years Eve a few years ago that you could see both the Russian space station Mir(for the last time) and the American one pass each other in the sky, it looked like two moving stars passing each other to me.
It was a very big deal at the time. The one we saw was the very first launch of the Challenger. That is the one that exploded in 86, very glad we were not there for that one. :cry: I still have a soft spot for the launches I guess. I had hoped to actually get DS to FL sometime to see one launch, but looks like that may not happen.
WE CAN ALL THANK RAGAN FOR ROBBING WELFARE AND TAX DOLLARS JUST SO WE CAN RACE THE RUSSIANS TO SPACE. NEEDLESS AND POINTLESS AND HE HAD THE NERVE TO SHOW PITY AFTER IT EXPLODED THAT TIME.
I grew up about 2 hours south of the Cape and would literally watch it from my backyard. I also wanted to get my son down there for a launch because he loves it....guess not!
My great grandparents lived in Titusville, my grandmother lived at Cocoa Beach. That was a very long time ago, LOL. They have all passed on now and I haven't been down there probably since that launch. We went to where ever it was that you could watch right across the water from the launch pad, danged if I can remember what they called it. I remember an alligator being down there though, me and my sisters were terriifed of it, LOL.
Major Nelson lived there too. He had a hot genie. Her name was....well, Genie. He would rub something to get her to pop out and then she would do things to make him happy, but she always goofed up first.
