TSB67 Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 Just heard this and am very disappointed that I will never see one in person. Something I always wanted to see but never thought about making a sole-purpose trip for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiztedRabbit Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 watched discovery launch in july of 1995.. it was a very cool experience.. the sight, sound and yes the feeling.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohdaho Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 Saw it land a couple times at Edwards. Never got to see it takeoff tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hue jass Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 I saw one go up. After it was gone I looked around and a bunch of people were crying. Also got to see some footage they take from a telescope aimed at the point of entry into the atmosphere. The extreme distance makes the image shimmer and you can actually see the shuttle come into view. They follow it all the way in, visually! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InyaAzz Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 Just heard this and am very disappointed that I will never see one in person. Something I always wanted to see but never thought about making a sole-purpose trip for it.Same here. I always wanted to catch a night launch though. I guess it was one of those things you take for granted until you don't have it anymore.Sad to see em go...especially since the russians now have a monopoly in space..but it's time to jump start NASA and move on to the next big thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWing'R Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 (edited) Are you saying NASA is no longer going to launch any shuttles??Hmm, nevermind, I just read it for myself. Edited July 7, 2011 by SWing'R Read it for myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted July 7, 2011 Report Share Posted July 7, 2011 (edited) Me too. I wanted to fly down and see the last one. I've seen day and night launches and landings. But I never tire of watching. I actually was there camping out on the stinking Banana River for the first launch.It's tricky seeing a launch, there will probably be 3 to 5 million people backed up more than 60 miles in all directions, trying to see this last one.Now thinking of catching an Atlas or Delta launch a little later this year.edit: news says only one million people estimated for this launch. But the local papers estimated 3 million for the previous launch, by additionally counting all the people stuck on the roads trying to get there. It backed up all the way to Orlando. Edited July 8, 2011 by ReconRat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiztedRabbit Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 i was very lucky to sit on the bleachers byt he countdown clock.. i was there for spacecamp and that was our treat after "graduation" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gen3flygirl Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 I was able to go down last summer with a friend and watch the last scheduled night launch. We almost missed it because they kept delaying it and we were running out of vacation time. Managed to watch it from where the family and NASA guest are allowed, if I remember correctly it is the closest you can get with out actually working for NASA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 (edited) I was able to go down last summer with a friend and watch the last scheduled night launch. We almost missed it because they kept delaying it and we were running out of vacation time. Managed to watch it from where the family and NASA guest are allowed, if I remember correctly it is the closest you can get with out actually working for NASA.Correct. That's the place to be. The guy that lives across the street from my Parents down there, gets tickets all the time. He retired from the control center, and now is usually at the French Guyana launch site. My Parents have gone multiple times.edit: I've even gotten the ladder out and watched launches and landings from on the roof of their house. Not a bad view. Edited July 8, 2011 by ReconRat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 watch live on your NASA android phone app:http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/android/nasa_app.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gen3flygirl Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 The guy I went with is a photographer. he has some really good shots on his page http://www.elliottphoto.com/ I want to frame the one that is just off the pad with all the smoke around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 This is the poster/print everyone wants:It's the one with all the birds in flight in the foreground.I've got a bunch of shuttle photos from when I worked at Rockwell. Big 18"x24".(And B-1B and Apollo photos.) I should dig them out, I haven't looked at them in years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit12 Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 I have an aunt that is like 5 miles from the launch site and they watch the take offs with a telescope. This thread kind of hits me with the reality that I had a place to stay and never went to see a launch. Heck I've never been farther away than Roanoke Va. and that was a delivery, down and back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmh_sprint Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Atlantis is scheduled to land at 5:57a.m. tomorrow (Thursday) morning as an FYI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beegreenstrings Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 final shuttle landing was this morning. Watched it on CNN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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