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- Subject: Re: Ok, what would I expect from going to see sts-47?
- Message-ID: <fred-mckenzie-100992154112@128.159.169.79>
- From: fred-mckenzie@ksc.nasa.gov (Fred McKenzie)
- Date: 10 Sep 92 16:19:30 EST
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- In article <6675@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>, jarrell@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Ron Jarrell)
- wrote:
- > Some friends and I are here at one of the disney world hotels in orlando
- > on vacation..
- > potentialy blow off a day at disney and drive out capewards to see sts
- > 47 launch..
- > I'd hate to devote a day to driving only to find the closest I'm
- > going to get is 30 miles away on the expressway..
-
- Ron-
-
- Launch is currently scheduled for 10:23 A.M., Saturday, 9/12/92. If you
- are anywhere in Central Florida, you should be able to see something of the
- launch, if skies are clear.
-
- If you decide to come to the coast for the launch, I suggest you come to
- TITUSVILLE. Go east on State Road 50 from I-95, to US-1. Go north on US-1
- to the "Miracle City Mall" at Harrison, across the street from the Post
- Office. Park in the Mall parking lot, and walk across US-1, to behind the
- Post Office.
-
- This is by far the easiest, most practical viewing site I know of. You
- can't get much closer without a pass to go onto Space Center property. You
- can really "feel" it from here!
-
- Realize that the most serious traffic jam is after launch, but that it only
- gets worse if you hesitate. Leaving the Mall, go west on Harrison to Park.
- Go south on Park until it ends at State Road 405. Go south on 405 to
- State Road 50. You will then be within a few hundred yards of I-95, and
- the traffic jam begins!
-
- Are you a Ham? If you have a two meter receiver or a scanner along, tune
- to 146.94 MHz. John Anderson, K4GCC, rebroadcasts the "NASA Select" audio
- channel on his repeater. Other popular repeaters in the immediate area are
- 145.37, 146.91, 146.97, 147.36, 444.150 and 444.750.
-
- PS: There is a very nice Hamfest this weekend, at the Melbourne
- Auditorium, located about three blocks west of US-1 on Hibiscus. Melbourne
- is about 40 miles south of Titusville. Talk-in is on 146.85 repeater.
-
- fred-mckenzie@ksc.nasa.gov
-