Stayed up to 1.30 in the morning and waited at the waters edge along with thousands of others, all hoping to see a night launch.
With only a few minutes to go they were counting down when BIG SPARKIES hit the Cape a few miles south of the launch site. The regulars looked at each other shrugged their shoulders and started packing up. A couple of minutes later came the official word from NASA saying "cancelled due to weather".
I booked in for another night on the strength of a positive forecast and an update from Nasa reschduling the launch for 1.05am. Wednesday morning. Tonight came the bad news, a main engine fuel supply valve has failed, and the launch is cancelled possibly to October.
Still I met some nice locals
including this one sipping fresh water from a leaky hose in the marina.
1 comment:
Pity about the launch, the sight and the noise must be incredible. How far away from the launch site are you? Not many more launches now and the US will be out of the maned space game, at least for a few years. Give how risk averse the americans are now, and the size of the national debt, it could be a very long time before they retrun to space.
Have a great time and keep us up to date.
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