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Offline imref

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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #1100: April 21, 2019, 04:01:27 PM »
Quote from: GburgNatsFan on April 21, 2019, 02:53:13 PM
No crew in it, right?

No. But a big setback to the program.
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« Reply #1103: May 22, 2019, 04:01:27 PM »
This is some rather dated background on my father's flight into earth's orbit...5 years in the making now...

Presently scheduled for June 22nd, from Cape Canaveral via a USAF mission Falcon Heavy rocket.  Fitting, as dad was in the Army-Air Force in the 1940's...

Celestis, the organizer, predicts the platform will remain in orbit for the next 20 to 25 years.  Maybe I'll re-join him there some day...

Wish us luck...we will both be there for the launch.  As a matter of fact, he arrived at the Cape, along with 151 other souls, yesterday...

https://www.celestis.com/blog/countdown-to-celestis-16-the-heritage-flight/
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« Reply #1104: May 22, 2019, 04:59:36 PM »
Quote from: varoadking on May 22, 2019, 04:01:27 PM
This is some rather dated background on my father's flight into earth's orbit...5 years in the making now...

Presently scheduled for June 22nd, from Cape Canaveral via a USAF mission Falcon Heavy rocket.  Fitting, as dad was in the Army-Air Force in the 1940's...

Celestis, the organizer, predicts the platform will remain in orbit for the next 20 to 25 years.  Maybe I'll re-join him there some day...

Wish us luck...we will both be there for the launch.  As a matter of fact, he arrived at the Cape, along with 151 other souls, yesterday...

https://www.celestis.com/blog/countdown-to-celestis-16-the-heritage-flight/


Good luck Var.  What an amazing tribute to him.
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« Reply #1105: May 22, 2019, 05:07:49 PM »
Wow  :clap:
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« Reply #1106: May 22, 2019, 05:16:24 PM »
Best of luck.  Quite a tribute to the man. 
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« Reply #1107: May 22, 2019, 05:26:38 PM »
Quote from: varoadking on May 22, 2019, 04:01:27 PM
https://www.celestis.com/blog/countdown-to-celestis-16-the-heritage-flight/


I was sittin' here thinking about Timothy Leary.     :)       Have you been to the A and S at Dulles recently (I guess that part goes to the Rolling Thunder thread)?
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« Reply #1108: May 22, 2019, 06:20:56 PM »
Quote from: mitlen on May 22, 2019, 05:26:38 PM
I was sittin' here thinking about Timothy Leary.     :)       Have you been to the A and S at Dulles recently (I guess that part goes to the Rolling Thunder thread)?

Been a few years...my dad is on one of the foils there as well ..
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« Reply #1109: May 22, 2019, 06:40:25 PM »
Quote from: varoadking on May 22, 2019, 06:20:56 PM
Been a few years...my dad is on one of the foils there as well ..

I stopped by one day (with my niece and son visiting the air craft) to pass my regards.     I still got the info around here somewhere.      Probably with my keys.     :)
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« Reply #1110: May 22, 2019, 07:23:05 PM »
Quote from: mitlen on May 22, 2019, 06:40:25 PM
I stopped by one day (with my niece and son visiting the air craft) to pass my regards.     I still got the info around here somewhere.      Probably with my keys.     :)

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« Reply #1111: May 22, 2019, 07:29:32 PM »
Quote from: varoadking on May 22, 2019, 04:01:27 PM
This is some rather dated background on my father's flight into earth's orbit...5 years in the making now...

Presently scheduled for June 22nd, from Cape Canaveral via a USAF mission Falcon Heavy rocket.  Fitting, as dad was in the Army-Air Force in the 1940's...

Celestis, the organizer, predicts the platform will remain in orbit for the next 20 to 25 years.  Maybe I'll re-join him there some day...

Wish us luck...we will both be there for the launch.  As a matter of fact, he arrived at the Cape, along with 151 other souls, yesterday...

https://www.celestis.com/blog/countdown-to-celestis-16-the-heritage-flight/
Great stuff.
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« Reply #1113: May 22, 2019, 10:21:39 PM »
That is awesome VaRK :clap:
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« Reply #1114: May 22, 2019, 10:31:35 PM »
Thank you all...I'm pretty pumped...  :D
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« Reply #1115: May 22, 2019, 10:33:12 PM »
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asteroid-kw4-1999-with-its-own-moon-trailing-behind-enters-our-galaxy-this-week-passing-earth-nasa/

Doesn’t look to be visible by naked eye but I assume there will be some on line stuff from the telescopes.
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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #1116: May 22, 2019, 10:46:38 PM »
Godspeed, VaRK’s dad...
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« Reply #1117: May 25, 2019, 01:48:49 PM »
Email from Celestis https://www.celestis.com/ today:

We have been informed that the launch window - the time during which the Falcon Heavy may be launched - has been set by the Air Force at 11:30 pm June 22 until 1:30 am June 23.

Night Launch!  woot!
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« Reply #1118: May 25, 2019, 04:43:55 PM »
Quote from: varoadking on May 25, 2019, 01:48:49 PM
Email from Celestis https://www.celestis.com/ today:

We have been informed that the launch window - the time during which the Falcon Heavy may be launched - has been set by the Air Force at 11:30 pm June 22 until 1:30 am June 23.

Night Launch!  woot!

:clap:
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Offline varoadking

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« Reply #1119: June 20, 2019, 06:57:20 PM »

My father's Celestis launch is now scheduled between 11:30pm on June 24th and 3:30am on June 25th.

Here's a look at the payload handling on the Falcon Heavy.  There will be 24 various payloads handled on this Air Force Space Test Program-2 mission.

https://www.space.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-stp-2-satellites-photo.html?fbclid=IwAR1-3X2pyXElSNADyivQqPPOewMwDGDUCWoWuov7IMdoAAa2XqWmd7krqtc

We got back from Hawaii yesterday and I leave for Florida tomorrow evening...finger's crossed that the launch window holds...
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« Reply #1120: June 20, 2019, 07:02:25 PM »
Quote from: varoadking on June 20, 2019, 06:57:20 PM
My father's Celestis launch is now scheduled between 11:30pm on June 24th and 3:30am on June 25th.

Here's a look at the payload handling on the Falcon Heavy.  There will be 24 various payloads handled on this Air Force Space Test Program-2 mission.

https://www.space.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-stp-2-satellites-photo.html?fbclid=IwAR1-3X2pyXElSNADyivQqPPOewMwDGDUCWoWuov7IMdoAAa2XqWmd7krqtc

We got back from Hawaii yesterday and I leave for Florida tomorrow evening...finger's crossed that the launch window holds...

Outstanding.
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« Reply #1121: June 21, 2019, 06:41:48 PM »
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« Reply #1123: June 21, 2019, 06:52:09 PM »
Quote from: mitlen on June 21, 2019, 06:49:15 PM
To quote Walter Cronkite at the time of John Glenn's Friendship 7 launch    ...   "Go baby"      :thumbs:

I remember that...  :old:
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« Reply #1124: June 21, 2019, 06:56:31 PM »
Quote from: varoadking on June 21, 2019, 06:52:09 PM
I remember that...  :old:

I read about it in a history book.    Let me make sure I got this right  ....   the actual pre-launch show starts Monday night with the scheduled launch at 2330.
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