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Tips, Phoenix Launch |
 Jun 29 2006, 09:34 PM
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I'm planning on being at the Phoenix launch...
 Any tips about the perfect location, lodging, spirit?... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jun 30 2006, 12:43 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (ustrax @ Jun 29 2006, 10:34 PM)  I'm planning on being at the Phoenix launch... Any tips about the perfect location, lodging, spirit?... Contact Ben Cooper! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jun 30 2006, 12:49 AM
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QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 29 2006, 08:43 PM) Contact Ben Cooper! Bob Shaw Go to his website launchphotography.com and he describes all the best places for viewing. Since Phoenix is a Delta II, Jetty Park is the best place. And near by in Port Canaveral, Grill's is the place to go. I will be nearby |
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Jun 30 2006, 04:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
The best place would be to look for a good M113 and drive it to up close to Delta II.
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Jun 30 2006, 06:24 AM
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Good on you Ustrax.
I'd like myself to be on the landing place. Can you please confirm the final selection
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Jun 30 2006, 07:28 AM
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The FUNDAMENTAL rule for planning to see a launch is to schedule the first day of the launch window at the start of a vacation, and be prepared to vacation every day at regional attractions, till either your money, vacation time, launch window, or sanity run out!
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Jun 30 2006, 11:00 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (edstrick @ Jun 30 2006, 08:28 AM) The FUNDAMENTAL rule for planning to see a launch is to schedule the first day of the launch window at the start of a vacation, and be prepared to vacation every day at regional attractions, till either your money, vacation time, launch window, or sanity run out! Thanks guys for the Ben Cooper and Grill's references... I believe all the lodging facilities must be all occupied with anticipation for the launch, no? Maybe even now may be late for reservations... edstrick, yes I thought about it, I have a month, it would be quite a blow to have to return home without watching it due to delays... 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jun 30 2006, 12:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 6-April 06 From: Cape Canaveral Member No.: 734 |
QUOTE (ustrax @ Jun 30 2006, 07:00 AM) Thanks guys for the Ben Cooper and Grill's references... I believe all the lodging facilities must be all occupied with anticipation for the launch, no? Maybe even now may be late for reservations... edstrick, yes I thought about it, I have a month, it would be quite a blow to have to return home without watching it due to delays... For the shuttle yes, for a Delta II no. ELV launchs come and go and few people take vacation to see one of them. Only the people working on a specific launch are staying in the hotels (but there are 100's more rooms than workers) |
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Jun 30 2006, 04:19 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (Jim from NSF.com @ Jun 30 2006, 01:24 PM) For the shuttle yes, for a Delta II no. ELV launchs come and go and few people take vacation to see one of them. Only the people working on a specific launch are staying in the hotels (but there are 100's more rooms than workers) Thanks for the precious informations Jim.
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jul 8 2006, 11:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
QUOTE (edstrick @ Jun 30 2006, 07:28 AM) The FUNDAMENTAL rule for planning to see a launch is to schedule the first day of the launch window at the start of a vacation, and be prepared to vacation every day at regional attractions, till either your money, vacation time, launch window, or sanity run out! This is exactly the strategy I used (successfully) for the Space Shuttle launch in 1989 of the Galileo probe to Jupiter. Flexibility (and calling the hotel immediately after a delay) is the key. I scheduled my arrival in Florida for the first day of the launch window and had to keep changing hotel reservations due to asssorted delays. Luckily, the shuttle finally lifted off on a glorious morning of the last vacation day. A few hours later I boarded the plane for home happy as a clam (or a rover finding water altered rock). Be sure to have a thoroughly practiced and thought out backup plan (redundency) and lots of patience. |
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Nov 1 2006, 09:22 PM
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QUOTE (ustrax @ Jun 30 2006, 08:19 AM) Thanks for the precious informations Jim. Wrong web forum (NSF.com is more appropriate), but imagine booking a room for the previous shuttle mission (STS-115). With all those delays, that must've been frustrating Heck-- Imagine all the rooms that will be booked prior to the last shuttle launch in 2010 
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