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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Liftoff
Message-ID: <752@burl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 10:26:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 10:26:22 1985
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In article <1107@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
>>Space shuttle Discovery lifted off on time today,
>>at 0733 EDT.  It was everything but eventful.
>
>Pooh.  You must have had to have been there.  For the first time in a long
>time, you could actually SEE it clearly until the SRBs quit going.
>It was good to photograph, too.

I was in the VIP viewing area for STS-5; on that one we actually saw
the SRBs blown off and watched them tumble flashing in the sunlight
almost all the way to water impact.  Stunning!
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