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Old 05-02-2010, 03:41 PM
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Spanrz (Brett)
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Things still look good for STS-130.
Weather is about 70% favourable. Big rains coming tomorrow, but should just pass by Sunday.
The key is the wind speed, that will be the only thing to bump it via mother nature, other than mechanical glitches.

Went and finished off the other stuff at Kennedy today including Hall of Fame and the "up and close" bus tour (not just the standard bus tour).
Highly recommend that you take 2 days to view everything. As we went in Winter, the lines weren't that bad, but in summer, forget it... (hours)
It will take you more than 2 days, if you are a space nutter like me.
A friend of mine was rushed through in 1 day, I don't think he seen everything and he said it was rushed.

Got really close to Pad 39B and was about 1-2k's from Pad 39A (Endeavour).
Just awesome, so chuffed.
Bought a lot of goodies, spent about $200USD and the wife spent about $200USD.

Here's some photos (small snipet)......
Very hard to get the photo's right for the exposure. The Fujifilm camera struggles to get good shots in slightly off conditions, you have to work very hard to get your result that you want.

Very glarey today, even had sun interfering in the Pad 39A (Endeavour) shots. Bit annoyed about the glare factor, but it's the best I could do with what I had. Had to squint most shots.
And a wife who didn't want to set the camera, it's all too hard. Sheesh!

But other than that, I have captured what I wanted and got what I wanted out of it.

Yesterday :
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http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._5665538_n.jpg

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._5730522_n.jpg

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs128...._3463611_n.jpg

Today:

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs128...._3897132_n.jpg

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._4300077_n.jpg

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs148...._8037270_n.jpg

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._2121865_n.jpg

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs148...._4516473_n.jpg
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