Subj : Re: Space Launch
To   : Michael Borthwick
From : Abbub
Date : Mon Apr 17 2023 19:49:36

 > Oh how long have you lived there? Were you able to witness the
 > Challenger disaster or any of the other shuttle launches?

Not the person you're replying to, but my dad flew with my brothers down to
Florida to watch a couple of the Apollo launches. (He was an engineer for
G.E. and had working on some of the video equipment used.)

He flew with my sister and I down to Flordia to watch STS-02 go up, and then
a few years later one of the Challenger flights (not STS-51L, but I was
watching that live on TV in school when that happened). His response the
Shuttle launch was, "Meh...it's no Saturn V."

In 1997-1998 I was playing in a ska band down in Melbourne, Florida, which is
about 20 miles south of the Cape. The shuttle program was going fast and
furious at that point, so I believe there were about a dozen launches during
the time I was down there. A couple of them I wasn't even aware of, just
walking around outside and looked up and there was a Shuttle blasting off.

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