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Has anyone attended a shuttle lunch? I would like to go but the tickets seem to be sold out...where is a good place on the coast to go and see it at?
What does everyone think?
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RC
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RC
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Well, I was in Orlando(1994) and could see the shuttle launch at mid night. You can see the shuttle from there. First thing I saw was the glow of the ignition grow from a little spot to a big glow and then you see the shuttle and watch it do the roll maneuver(sp) and then disappear into the horizion. If you can get within 50 miles of NASA, You'll see it take off at night, or 25 miles if it's a day shot.
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Years ago ( March 2002 ) I was at Walt Disney World and was visiting Blizzard Beach water park. I was on the tower of the Summit Plummet water slide when off in the distance I observed the Shuttle Columbia rising into space. It was 60 miles away but I was in awe watching the plume of exhaust vapors arching from the horizon up into the blue sky.
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There are only 3 active in the fleet if I remember right - Endeavour, Atlantis, and Discovery. Challenger and Columbia are no more, and Enterprise - the first one - was retired already. May 2010 is to be the final flight of the shuttle program and then I think in 2012 or something like that they're to debut the new flier.
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This was the last mission to the Hubble Telescope.
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There are only 3 active in the fleet if I remember right - Endeavour, Atlantis, and Discovery. Challenger and Columbia are no more, and Enterprise - the first one - was retired already. May 2010 is to be the final flight of the shuttle program and then I think in 2012 or something like that they're to debut the new flier.
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Did anyone have opportunity to watch any of the Hubble mission work online? You could tune in via NASA's site and watch them from space. I watched part of the battery changing, and it was amazing to me that I could watch events happening 350 miles up in space here at my desk. Pretty neat.
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Several years ago I had the fun of taking a Boy Scout troop to see a launch from the causeway (which I don't think they allow anymore) and it was the most incredible thing I have ever seen. What I remember most was not the sight or sound but the feeling of the vibration of the shuttle engines.
I will remember watching this launch as long as I live. Go see it!
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I will remember watching this launch as long as I live. Go see it!
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There are only 3 active in the fleet if I remember right - Endeavour, Atlantis, and Discovery. Challenger and Columbia are no more, and Enterprise - the first one - was retired already. May 2010 is to be the final flight of the shuttle program and then I think in 2012 or something like that they're to debut the new flier.
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I don't know that they did for sure. There was a Washington Post article from 2008 that I googled up that showed the Ares I and Ares V ships that resembled the old Gemini era rockets...with the Ares I being for orbital trips and the V being for trips to the moon...but whether that's definate is a whole other story.
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