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From: jpr@druhi.ATT.COM (Jack Reed)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: NASA passes
Message-ID: <3864@druhi.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Jan 89 19:21:46 GMT
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In article <2486@ssc-vax.UUCP>, adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark C. Adolph) writes:
> In article <626@m3.mfci.UUCP>, rodman@mfci.UUCP (Paul Rodman) writes:
> > 
> >     I've been told by a floridian that you can send away to NASA and
> > get gate passes for a shuttle launch. Does anyone know the
> > mechanism to do this?
> 
> If anyone has this information, I would also like it.  Looks like I may
> get the opportunity to make my long-awaited pilgrimage to the Cape to
> bid Discovery a bon voyage.
> 
> -- 
> 
> 					-- Mark A.
> 					...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph


I don't know if the following information is still valid.
In April, 1985 we went to Florida and saw a launch after getting a car pass
from NASA.  The pass gets you to within about 5 miles of the launch pad.
You park on a causeway and look across the water to the launch pad.
Try to get there early so you can get a spot next to the water.
We arrived 4 hours before the launch and there was still plenty of room.
The phone number was 305-867-2363 or you could write to:

	NASA Public Affairs
	PA-VIC
	Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899

Hope you get to go.  It was well worth the trip!