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From: topgun@vpnet.chi.il.us (robert white)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Closest allowed to launch
Message-ID: <2694cced-13asci.space.shuttle@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Jul 90 17:55:03 GMT
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 I was recently a visitor at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
    I heard that at the time of a sapce shuttle launch, no one is
permitted to be any closer than the vehicle assembly building.
    If you are a tourist who doesn't have connections like a
Steven Speielberg or media type who seem to get invited for a ring
side seat, what is the closest you can hope to get to watch a
shuttle launch?
    
    As a point of interest, why are there several armored personnel
carriers scattered between the vehicle assembly buliding and the
route to the launch pads 39a and 39b?