07-20-2009, 09:22 AM
In answer to the question 
I was in my living room (Only room with a TV) watching the Console (TV/Record player/Radio) it was a Huge 20" TV Screen and we watched and listened to history being made... Same TV We watched RFK's & JFK's assassinations, same TV we watched Carol Burnett and Cronkite too..
The reason that not too many people watch the Shuttle launches is that the Media thinks it's routine.. That was a note of the news after The Challenger explosion, all of a sudden they started covering the "actual launch"..
I watch NASA Select TV (google it) if i'm home. I keep track of the entire day's events for every mission i can.. even saw the ISS & Shuttle fly over my house once each of the last 2 missons.... Looking forard to this Saturday - when it's do again.. Only 9 missions left... Going back to the Moon in 2018....
I'm just as dissapointed when a flight is delayed.. Pity, the "News" media isn't even phased by it except for a blurb or 2...
Anyway - (Stepping off the soap box) It's still a very important part of my life... From Apollo 1 (R.I.P.) all the way up to Apollo 17.... and the STS and whatever the bean counters come up with next.....
By the way - Does anyone else get the simularity between the I-phone and all it's apps... and The P.A.D.D - the Personal Assistant Data Display (Clipboard of Star Trek?? ) We're getting closer to RoddenBerry's dreams every day.... Now if we could only realize his dreams of no wars, conflicts and other distractions....
I was in my living room (Only room with a TV) watching the Console (TV/Record player/Radio) it was a Huge 20" TV Screen and we watched and listened to history being made... Same TV We watched RFK's & JFK's assassinations, same TV we watched Carol Burnett and Cronkite too..
The reason that not too many people watch the Shuttle launches is that the Media thinks it's routine.. That was a note of the news after The Challenger explosion, all of a sudden they started covering the "actual launch"..
I watch NASA Select TV (google it) if i'm home. I keep track of the entire day's events for every mission i can.. even saw the ISS & Shuttle fly over my house once each of the last 2 missons.... Looking forard to this Saturday - when it's do again..
Only 9 missions left... Going back to the Moon in 2018....I'm just as dissapointed when a flight is delayed.. Pity, the "News" media isn't even phased by it except for a blurb or 2...
Anyway - (Stepping off the soap box) It's still a very important part of my life... From Apollo 1 (R.I.P.) all the way up to Apollo 17.... and the STS and whatever the bean counters come up with next.....
By the way - Does anyone else get the simularity between the I-phone and all it's apps... and The P.A.D.D - the Personal Assistant Data Display (Clipboard of Star Trek?? ) We're getting closer to RoddenBerry's dreams every day.... Now if we could only realize his dreams of no wars, conflicts and other distractions....
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~~ Baldwin Eddystone Unofficial Website
~~ I wonder what that would look like in 1:20.3???