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| well the sound wave just rolled through, and got another night launch on tape from the back yard.
really cool.
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Location: Waterloo, IL | I have always wanted to watch an actual launch in person. Made a trip to the Cape once when teh sub I was on docked in Port Canaveral many years ago. Got to see a shuttle, but did not get to see a launch. :( |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | I'd love to see one. |
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Location: PDX | Well here is the launch. Not quite the same as being there, but kinda cool none the less.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | My buddy's adopted-parents lived in Merrit Island FL. You could sit on their balconey and watch satellite launches. Pretty cool. No shuttles tho' They were doing Apoll/Soyuz back then... |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Thnx gh1, cool site. I was a jethead, so just about anything with flames coming out of the back on TO is cool. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Back in the early '90's I used to volunteer as a test subject(guinnea pig)for NASA at JSC. I got to participate in alot of very interesting experiments aimed at improving the way that man adapts to the space environment. In one experiment I got two rides on NASA's KC-135 vomit comet, so I have a total of 40 minutes of weightlessness under my belt.
One day they called me up and said they needed people for the astronauts to practice drawing blood on. It turned out to be Charlie Bolden and Franklin Chang-Diaz, who were training for STS-60 at the time. Several weeks later I got a very nice invitation from them, complete with passes, to see them launch aboard STS-60 from the Causeway veiwing site. It really is quite spectacular to see in person. It was an early morning launch and bitterly cold but worth every minute of it. |
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Location: Midland, MI | That's a pretty cool story, Rick. The only test subject volunteering I ever did was for Sandoz labs. :eek:
I kid. It would be pretty cool to see them put one of the shuttles (or anything, really) up. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | 
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Location: NJ | MAN!! that looks like fun!!!
I always wished I could try that!
In grammar school, I was always the AstroGeek who followed all of the Project Mercury/Gemini/Apollo flights . . . |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Yeah, I was the same way in school. I got into big trouble one day for spending the whole class drawing a mural of the Apollo 8 capsule orbiting the moon on my desktop. Had to clean every desk in the classroom. :(
That really was a blast! I started volunteering in order to try and get a ride on it. I had to really lobby to get those rides. The lady who headed up the test subject selection for different studies finally took pity on me and managed to get me in a study of a drug to prevent motion sickness (or space adaptation syndrome, in Nasa speak). Each flight used to do 40 parabolas of about 30 seconds of weightlessness each as the plane dove from 25k feet to 15k feet. We had to stay strapped in our seats for the first 20 parabolas in that particular study.
After that we were free to "float about the cabin" for the remaining 20. It's not really the weightlessness that gets you, its the 35 seconds of 2g when you reach the bottom and ascend back to 25k feet. There's not a rollercoaster on earth that can match it. |
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OT: Discovery launch..
