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From: apd0366%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (Ari P. Daum)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: NASA passes
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Date: 30 Jan 89 18:43:24 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.
>

NASA passes for the shuttle launches are available at the entrance gate
to the Air Force base on the day of the launch.  This area affords the
best view of the launch as well as a live broadcast of launch control
starting about three hours before the launch.  Get to the area at least
two hours before the launch as traffic heading into the base is slow
and the view from the highway is not that interesting.

The last launch I went to was free (Atlantis) but I won't be surprised
if a nominal fee will be required for your particular launch.

p.s. Those of you who are interested in launch goodies will have
     no problem as NASA is kind enough to provide retail outlets
     every few hundred yards along the water.
     
                                                  Ari the Wizard,
                                                  native Floridian at heart