== No Subject ==

Thread View: sci.space.shuttle

2 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

2 total messages Started by Gavin Syme Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:27

#3693

Author: Gavin Syme
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:27

19 lines
1168 bytes

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.'

Spaceport USA tours

#3696

Author: Brian Stuart Thorn
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:20

40 lines
2278 bytes

>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

    I don't think we are talking about the same thing. You seem to be
    referring to the launch passes (which are free if you write to
    NASA or your congressman). I was unaware that Spaceport USA was
    now issuing these, and I stand corrected if so.
    
    However, UNLESS YOU HAVE ONE OF THESE PASSES you cannot get onto
    Kennedy Space Center until two hours after launch. The posts I
    was referring to implied that Joe Public could go out to the Cape
    (Spaceport USA) on launch day and get a ticket to ride a bus out
    to see a launch. This is not true.
    
    Regarding your experience on STS-53, did you get a "ticket" to
    drive your own car out to the viewing site, or did you just get
    a pass to the Spaceport USA facility, and then catch a bus from
    there?
    
    -Brian
    
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brian S. Thorn                                    "If ignorance is bliss,
BrianT@cup.portal.com                               this must be heaven."
                                                -Diane Chambers, "Cheers"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads