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Even though you could question the whole Artemis concept, it's still extremely exciting watching the countdown with my son. I just missed the original Apollo fl
by hghid 6mo ago
Even though you could question the whole Artemis concept, it's still extremely exciting watching the countdown with my son. I just missed the original Apollo flights and had assumed I would never see a moon landing in my lifetime. We may well not have a landing for quite some time yet, but it's still cool to see a Moon bound rocket standing on the launchpad...
- pjmorris 6mo agoWe lived ~60 miles North of the Cape when I was a young boy, and watching the Saturn V's go on the way to the moon was a forming experience.
- chasd00 6mo agoI lived in Port Orange FL until i was 12, during night launches my dad would take the family to New Smyrna Beach or some where a short drive South where we watched the shuttles come up over the water somehow. I can't remember the details it was a lonnnng time ago haha. I do remember the launches sounding like popcorn popping. I live in Dallas now and will be turning 50 soon, i want to catch the next Starship launch live but would have to time it perfectly to get time off of work ahead of time.
- largbae 6mo agoYou probably watched from the Florida side of the intercoastal waterway between the main part of Florida and Cape Canaveral. Because of the 3-mile minimum and Patrick AFB it is pretty hard to find a good watching place that is actually on the cape.
- nobleach 6mo ago80 miles for me! I was a Space Shuttle era kid though. Saw the Challenger disaster during my lunchtime. And then on perpetual replay for the rest of the week on WESH/WCPX/WFTV most likely. Even still, just knowing we were launching all those people into space was awe-inspiring.
- lp0_on_fire 6mo agoIt's even more exciting when you realize that the last crewed mission beyond Low Earth Orbit was 1972 and each person on that spacecraft today are younger than that.
- qingcharles 6mo agoI don't know if it's feasible for you, but if you can, try to take your kid to see a live rocket launch. The TV is grossly unable to display how awesome these things are in person.
- dylan604 6mo agoIt is one of the things I regret not ever getting to see a shuttle launch. The closest I ever got was when I flew over Florida while a shuttle was on the pad.
- qingcharles 6mo agoI got super, super lucky and managed to get VIP tix for the last one. IIRC I took these pics on my iPhone 5 https://imgur.com/a/Mlyxk9u https://imgur.com/a/Mlyxk9u
- dylan604 6mo agowow, that shot of it sitting on the pad is much cleaner than I'd have expected from that phone. i'm envious
- qingcharles 6mo agoI cheated somewhat. I had some good binoculars with me that day and I was juggling those in one hand while holding the iPhone to the eyepiece :) (and I checked, it was iPhone 4 not 5)
- dylan604 6mo agoI was wondering how the zoom was so clear. However, I'm familiar with the struggle of shooting that way. I don't have a phone mount for my telescope, but with enough struggle, I can get a decent pic from the viewfinder on my phone. So don't play it off as cheating. It was a bit of skill to get both the binocs and the phone steady and aligned enough to get it. Either way, it's a shot not everyone is going to have posted to their socials.
- ludjer 6mo agoIts going to be a first for me and my son as well. Looking forward to tonight to make an even over it.
- eru 6mo ago> I just missed the original Apollo flights and had assumed I would never see a moon landing in my lifetime. The PR Chinese might want to go for a significant landing, too, just for the prestige?