Well, it's been a heck of a week. I'm writing this from the gate at Orlando airport, waiting for my delayed flight homeLike I mentioned before and/or elsethread, I hit the Pad 39 tour on friday, the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. Sunday I got about 5-6 hrs at Disney, and just about died -- doing Disney in this heat is just no good for me.
Monday I did the KSC Launch Control Center tour... at aroun Vd the time that Sally Ride passed on.
Tuesday I did the "Then & Now" tour, which consisted of going off KSC and out onto the Air Force portion of the Cape, where all the Mercury and Gemini flights flew from. Also the Apollo 1 fire. It's also where ULA currently launches their Atlas Vs and Delta IVs out of, and where SpceX is renting SLC-40(?) to launch Falcons and Dragons from. So I ended up in the old SLC-5 blockhouse that Allen Shephard launched from... on the anniversary of the very first rocket ever fired from the Cape, one of the Prject Bumper
Monday I did the KSC Launch Control Center tour... at aroun Vd the time that Sally Ride passed on.
Tuesday I did the "Then & Now" tour, which consisted of going off KSC and out onto the Air Force portion of the Cape, where all the Mercury and Gemini flights flew from. Also the Apollo 1 fire. It's also where ULA currently launches their Atlas Vs and Delta IVs out of, and where SpceX is renting SLC-40(?) to launch Falcons and Dragons from. So I ended up in the old SLC-5 blockhouse that Allen Shephard launched from... on the anniversary of the very first rocket ever fired from the Cape, one of the Prject Bumper