I've seen one from a distance - 120kms. Impressive. I have also seen the smoke trail in the sky in the morning after a night launch - weird seeing it kind of go up into space.
Kennedy Space Centre is a very interesting tourist spot all by itself. It has the original moon mission control intact and the lunar lander etc. Also a Saturn V rocket on its side on the ground. A really solid rocket, big thick steel tubes.
Greg.
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Originally Posted by badchap
I wonder if that bus tour was the Greyline Tours that get allocated the NASA tickets ?
I can't tell you how envious I am that you've witnessed a launch.
The family and I will be in Florida in May, and for the last year and a half I've read up a bit about launch viewing, and checked NASA shuttle mission site and other sites such as nasaspaceflight.com almost every day or two !
The uncertainty is quite a bit of torture - I know I can't really plan a holiday and rely on launch dates, but then again, I didn't want to ignore any likely targeted launch dates when I was booking air tickets etc.
I have decided to ultimately go with the attitude that at least we're likely to see the shuttle on the launch pad when we're there, so as not to be too disappointed - if our week in FL coincides with Atlantis launch, then all the better.
(if this current mission is delayed much later than March, then whichever the next launch is, it will probably be pushed back to June)
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