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- From: gsyme@cix.compulink.co.uk (Gavin Syme)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: == No Subject ==
- Message-ID: <memo.830382@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 17:27:00 GMT
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- In article <72445@cup.portal.com>, BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
- writes:
-
- > Oh, and despite what has been posted here from time to time, the
- > SPACEPORT USA tourist attraction DOES NOT provide bus rides to see
- > a Shuttle launch. The facility DOES NOT open until something like
- > two hours after a launch on the day in question....
- >
- Tickets to see STS-53 were available from the ticket office a week before
- the launch. The facility opened at 3am, some 4 hours before the launch to
- admit those with tickets either for their vehicles or for the bus tours.
-
- I can't speak for the other launches, but we certainly watched the launch
- from the causeway courtesy of Spaceport USA.
-
- Gavin Syme
-
- 'If God had meant systems analysts to fly, He would have given programmers
- wings.'
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