On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:06:28 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:

On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:01:52 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:56:53 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 11/26/18 2:54 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/26/2018 2:42 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

Live streaming Mars landing right now on the NASA website ....
scheduled to land at 3pm EST.


WOW!Â* They successfully landed it on Mars.

All I saw was a bunch of people in a control room wearing maroon shirts...

What, you long for the days when they all wore white shirts with a
skinny tie and a cigarette in their mouth?

The last time I was at Cape Canaveral, they had a recreation of the Apollo mission control room, complete with the ash trays and a couple packs of Lucky Strikes laying around. That was a proper rocket! Wish I could have seen the launch of one. Had to settle for a shuttle launch. Still pretty cool, but the ground doesn't shake.

I watched STS 6 (first flight of the Challenger) from that little
campground on US1 near Cocoa Beach (not sure if it is even still
there). It was pretty spectacular. I thought stuff was shaking enough
for me when they fired the SRBs.
I slept in my old van all night and it went off first thing in the
morning. No chance of sleeping through it. When I got there the place
was pretty empty. By sun up there was no parking and barely a place to
stand. People were bumping into the truck milling around. I ended up
climbing on the roof of my truck. I let a couple little kids sit up
there with me.
When it was out of sight and I could get out I drove to DC.

We could see the shuttle from here in Ft Myers most of the time. I
remember when the Challenger blew up. We weren't sure what happened
but we knew it wasn't good.
It was strange watching the first and last launch. It took a while for
me to put that together.