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From: jeffg@pyramid.UUCP (Jeff Glover)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: VIP Shuttle Passes
Message-ID: <303@pyramid.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 23:54:40 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 14 23:54:40 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jul-85 02:56:49 EDT
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Reply-To: jeffg@pyramid.UUCP (Jeff Glover)
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: wrong information!!!

In article <112@cpsc53a.UUCP> dta@cpsc53a.UUCP (Doug Anderson) writes:
>	Subject: VIP Shuttle Passes.
>
>	NASA has provided an address to write to to get VIP passes for 
>	future shuttle launches.  These passes allow the holder to take one
>	(1) vehicle on to Merritt Island (the place you see all the TV 
>	footage from during the launches). You can pile as many people in 
>	the vehicle as you wish.

1. 	The pass mentioned is not called a VIP pass.  I forget it's real
	name, but the VIP pass is entirely different and is *OFFERED*, not
	requested.  The TV footage is from the VIP area, not the pass area.

>	The sight is about 1.5 miles from the shuttle launch pad and you get 
>	GREAT viewing!!

2.	The site for the pass mentioned is about 5 miles due south of the
	launch pad;  I think even the blockhouse (Is that what it is called
	these days?) is 3 miles away!

>	While I've never requested a pass for a particular launch they seem
>	to try to get you one for the next launch available so if your
>	comming down to Florida you may just want to try and get a pass.

3.	I've been to that location twice; both times on someone else's pass.
	They seemed to have waited forever for them.
--
Jeff C. Glover, Tektronix, Inc. PO Box 500, MS Y6-546, Beaverton, OR 97077
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