Posted on 07/31/2022 12:05:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Awesome roundel!
Come on SpaceX! We haven’t had a launch in over a week now. I’ve really gotten spoiled. I want to see a booster landing every few days at most.
” Battle Beneath the Earth”...
Unnamed yellow peril tunnels beneath the US to position atomic bombs... The classic conspiracy theory movie.
I recommend “ Rocky Jones Space Ranger”. Ever since I watched it as a kid, I wondered why NASA didn’t land that way. A friend of mine who’s a member of the board at the Astronaut Memorial at the Cape told me that he could get me into the VIP area or a launch. I said, if you can do that, can you get me on the recovery ship to watch the booster land. He laughed, said even he couldn’t do that. His dad worked on the crawler design and maintenance team since the 60’s, while my dad built optical tracking gear and dishes at Radiation ( now Harris) since the 60’s. We both watched Mercury, Gemini and Apollo launches as kids in elementary school. Our classes would go onto the playground to watch any launch. Good days, great times, and America was moving on into the future.
Interesting stuff. Thank you. Space travel seems to be one of the few areas where mankind is moving in a positive direction. We are meant to leave this planet someday: Musk’s vision that we must become a multiplanetary species.
Looking forward to this launch! 🔥🚀
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