Posted on 05/27/2020 11:17:12 AM PDT by cll
Weather doesn’t clear until monday
They launched Apollo 12 into some Florida weather. Got hit by lighting once or twice on the way up, knocking out power for bit.
There were no toll roads until the Bee Line.
Not sure I heard an hour before launch there were weather issues so I got nervous..no reason to take any unnecessary risk, can always try again on Saturday
EH!
I’ve heard that the Space X Falcon 9 is more sensitive to adverse winds because of its long and narrow profile or “fineness ratio”.
>>Will they have the Pan Am logo on the craft?<<
Given the technology at the time, 2001 was ASTOUNDING. The way Kubrick handle gravity and the lack thereof was extremely thoughtful. All the graphics were hand-drawn animations (even raster graphics were not around yet).
Too bad the launch was scrubbed.
I noticed how slick the capsule and the suits looked. Very clean lines.
There’s a narrow window for launches if you want to meet certain target in space at a given time.
>> I remember back several years ago watching Russia launching a mission to the ISS in literally near whiteout blizzard conditions. I tuned in and thought, ok this is a scrub for sure, didn’t even seem to phase them, no weather hold or nothing, snow so heavy you could barely even see the Soyez rocket on the pad.<<
Americans don’t launch with vodka in the suit liquid dispensers. ;)
I would imagine that getting hit with lightning might do something to the electronics. And all that liquid O2. It seems prudent to me.
It’s not the only one, but yes. The OP’s mention of the Russians launching a Soyuz in very heavy snow - that was only possible because of their booster type and (relatively) low crosswinds.
Some of the big SSTO concepts would have much better crosswind tolerance as well as crossrange performance; unfortunately, NASA killed some of them off in the 90s to protect their precious shuttle and the replacements that started recently have not yet had anything really flyable.
Thanks all for watching, see you on Saturday!
Don;t forget it is not just the launch vehicle but radar, telemetry, and optics that all need favorable conditions.
Similar. We had our 5 kids in the rental van, driving from Orlando east. All the play-by-play was on the radio and we pulled into the median as it launched, still 10 miles west of the cape. It was dark and 6 am. March 2000 ish.
Still got the 8mm video of it.
They launched Apollo 12 into some Florida weather. Got hit by lighting once or twice on the way up, knocking out power for bit.
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I remember. Government work.
I can’t remember - it was 20? years ago - right after the big hurricane went through. I was going to say 4:36 pm is what he said, but then figured it would have been military time so I changed it. Does the Air Force use civilian nomenclature?
And I guess I need to eat my hat - these guys got the forecast just a bit wrong. We were there in the middle of summer - so that is probably different than the more variable spring weather.
Back in Colorado in the summer you could almost set your watch on the afternoon storms that would build up and then spill over the eastern slopes of the Rockies.
Glad you got to see it. Any sound?
Now how many kids do you have? ;-)
5. Sound on radio, don’t recall but don’t think we were within the audible range.
But one of our sons, have given us 7 g-kids.
We all live in Florida now, left CT in ‘06
Where we are now is 100 miles due west in Pasco County. On a clear sky night we can see them go up from here.
>>Apparently they spent most of their work time drinking and didn’t bother to clean up the evidence. It was such a stereotype ... yet so accurate.<<
More often than not :)
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