Kennedy Space Center photodump

"Aremmes" (aremmes) 12/03/2019 at 15:00 • Filed to: Rocketlopnik, Photo Dump, Kennedy Space Center

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I had a chance to take the fam to Kennedy Space Center last week after Thanksgiving Day, where I could geek out and take pictures of big tall pointy sticks that at some point in time squirted fire out of their bottoms like a good habanero. And, despite KSC’s best efforts, some of the pictures actually turned out somewhat decent.

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Everything on this next set was taken from the bus’s dirty tinted windows and took some effort to fix the color cast and loss of contrast.

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Now I have to arrange another visit during a launch.

user314 > Aremmes 12/03/2019 at 15:21

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Cool! Interesting to see what’s changed since I was there in ‘98 .

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Aremmes 12/03/2019 at 15:22

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It makes me feel old to see a spacecraft that was new and exciting when I was child and billed as reusable be a Museum Piece but here we are.

Aremmes > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 12/03/2019 at 16:11

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I used to have a poster showing a landing of the Enterprise in one of its flight tests. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Alas, the reality was that the shuttles were unnecessarily large, complicated, and compromised beasts, and calling them reusable was a stretch given the extensive refurbishment they received after each mission. Nevertheless, a shuttle landing still seems to me a more graceful and impressive feat than a Falcon 9 landing.

user314 > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 12/03/2019 at 16:12

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I’ve mentioned this before, but I dug out a coffee table book of USAF/USN/USMC aircraft to show to my cousin’ s boys, who are the same age I was when I got it. 90-95 percent of the airplanes in the book have either been r etired or will be within a few years.

Aremmes > user314 12/03/2019 at 16:13

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Cool, thanks for sharing the link! This was my first time at KSC, so I can’t say what has changed over the years.

I too used to shoot on Advantix, and still have some negatives stashed in a cabinet. They're not my best work by far, though.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Aremmes 12/03/2019 at 18:01

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Yeah but they are pretty.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > user314 12/03/2019 at 18:04

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I took my Niece to the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo 6 years ago and there was an F14 and a F18 on display there and I felt old.

Aremmes > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 12/03/2019 at 18:53

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