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From: wherry@alazif.enet.dec.com (bradley g wherry)
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Subject: Re: Most frequently requested info ever
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Date: 27 Aug 90 18:20:24 GMT
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In article <5414@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, dil@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Perry G Ramsey)
writes:
|> In article <55268@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, kclenden@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
(Kevin Clendenien) writes:
|> > I've always wanted to see a shuttle launch.  So, I'm
|> > requesting any helpful hints, and suggestions that anyone might have on
|> > how to get a good vantage point,

There is a small park next to the Howard Johnson's and across US 1
from the Titusville Chamber of Commerce.  This is an excellent vantage
point.

my suggestion has to do with what to do AFTER the launch.

|> 
|> Glad you asked.  Stop in Titusville, NOT Cocoa Beach.  Titusville is much
closer
|> SEE the visitors center.  There is a lot of good stuff there.  You
|> get there on State Road 405, which heads east from south of Titusville.
|> After the launch, go to Ron Jon Surf Shop (the only reason to go to 
|> Cocoa Beach)(take US 1 to SR 528) and get a Space Shuttle shirt.
|> If you are into wildlife, see about the Black Point Wildlife Drive, which is
on
|> the Merrit Island Wildlife Refuge.  You get there by going across the river 
|> on SR 402 in north Titusville.
|> 

I absolutely whole-heartedly agree 100 percent.

After the Launch, I would highly, highly recommend eating dinner/lunch
at the "DIXIE Crossroads".  This is in fact on SR402  aka Garden Street
aka the first exit off I-95 into Titusville (Playalinda Beach Exit).  

(btw, I have nothing to do with them other than as a very happy customer.)

|> This is based on 10 years of Apollo watching while I lived in Titusville.
|> (You thought this was a biased account, didn't you?)

This is based on 18 years as a resident of this city.  (Though I used to watch
launches from the roof of my house....:-))

|> 
|> Cocoa scum, flame away!  I have the truth on my side!

Let them try.

|> -- 
|> Perry G. Ramsey           Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
|> perryr@vm.cc.purdue.edu   Purdue University
|> dil@mace.cc.purdue.edu    We've looked at clouds from ten sides now, 
|> 			  And we REALLY don't know clouds, at all.
|> 


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brad wherry                |  Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam; 
wherry@alazif.enet.dec.com |     e luce ad tenebras.