"Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal)
10/23/2013 at 06:57 • Filed to: Spacelopnik
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"Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal)
10/23/2013 at 06:57 • Filed to: Spacelopnik | 0
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Sometime in November, NASA (or someone) is scheduled to launch a Minotaur I with the ORS III satellite from Wallops Island, Virginia. We're heading to Virginia Beach in mid-November. What are the odds we will see it, up close and personal?
chuck07
> Just wear your damn mask...
10/23/2013 at 09:47 |
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Looks like the rocket had been delayed previously. The Original date was 8/2, then 6/15(Maybe), then 9/26-9/30, then 10/10. In June it was rescheduled to the current date, so I would think it is probably going to happen. Launch window opens 11/19 and runs to 11/28. My guess would be that it happens in the middle, since people want to be out of there by Thanksgiving.
In conclusion, depends how late in November mid-November is.
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Just wear your damn mask...
> chuck07
10/23/2013 at 09:58 |
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I'll be in North Carolina by then. Better seats than here, but not quite the front row we might have had driving the longest possible route through Delaware and down to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.
The Transporter
> Just wear your damn mask...
10/23/2013 at 10:58 |
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I really want to go and see one of these things one day as Wallops is many hours closer to where I live than Canaveral. I'm just missing that right combination of time and money.
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Just wear your damn mask...
> The Transporter
10/23/2013 at 11:17 |
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I've been in a bit of a dry spot, launch wise. I've seen a couple shuttle launches (once during Thanksgiving trip to Orlando when we drove down to the Cape for a night launch, the other on a separate trip when we caught it while on I-4 in Orlando) and a satellite launch on a separate trip to the Space Center, when I took one of tours and hung out at one of the stop points for like four hours waiting for the rocket to go.
This would be much more convenient.