Dang, so it goes with launches! Had a few million people watching the streams. Pretty cool. Saturday 3:22pm eastern.
Yeah, scrubbed. Bummer.... Perhaps now i'll have a chance to head up to Titusville to catch it live this weekend . I couldn't help but chuckle every time they referred to them as "Bob and Doug" and my mind kept putting in "McKenzie. Get Me A Space Beer, Ya Hoser!
So, is it worth trying to talk the wife into driving down to FL to see if we can watch this thing fly? I mean, my weekend did get freed up.
I think they said 40% chance of being canceled on Saturday but that’ll change as we get closer and weather prediction gets more accurate
I saw a couple shuttle launches (from a distance) in the mid 90s...definitely something you should see once if you get a chance.
Head on down and you can with me and Kevin at the Compound. WE will just turn the chairs from the TV in the garage to look east.
I'll be completely honest...........I've lived here for decades and have seen shuttle launches up close, but if they had this kind of streaming coverage back then with multi-cameras, telemetry, voice-com, etc. back then I probably would have never gone. Between the heat, bugs, traffic coming AND going, and dealing with the possibility it could get nixed at the last second, watching in full HD from every conceivable angle trumps feeling the ground kind of rumble for a few seconds and then losing the rocket in the clouds.
We live in SC, so we have heat and bugs anyway. As close as we are, I've never gone to watch. I think it would be fun, but I don't know where to go. I have a small van, so it's easy to drive and I can sleep in it while I wait.
I would love to come up on freq and meow or say onnnn Guuuuuuaaaaaarrrrrrddddddd.... Ok no I wouldnt but someone would.
Just how close can you get to observe the launch these days? I grew up with the space program and saw every manned launch beginning with Mercury on TV. It's a bucket list thing now, may head over from Pensacola.
