Subj : Re: Space Launch
To   : Abbub
From : Michael Borthwick
Date : Tue Apr 18 2023 13:05:34

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

Wow that must have been awesome to see! I can't imagine how the first few people into space at that time must have thought about it.

 Ab> He flew with my sister and I down to Flordia to watch STS-02 go up, and
 Ab> then a few years later one of the Challenger flights (not STS-51L, but I

I think the space shuttle was the best looking space vehicle ever designed. I don't like these fancy new things that spacex has made.

 Ab> launches during the time I was down there. A couple of them I wasn't
 Ab> even aware of, just walking around outside and looked up and there was a
 Ab> Shuttle blasting off.

I simply can't imagine how it must feel to just be wandering down the street and looking up to see a rocket take off. The closest thing we have here is the local hoon in his hotted up rustbucket tearing up the street :/

.... Just another prisoner of gravity!

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