Ferrari Mailing List: Re: No Ferrari Content - Antares Launch

[Rick Moseley (ramosel]

Tactile*  interesting description, Scottie.

Living in Georgia at the time, my did took me down to the Cape to watch the Apollo 11 launch since the moon landing was to be on my 10th birthday...  We were inside the "public" line but still outside the blast radius.  Once I had been introduced to all the people in the building and they knew the moon landing was on my birthday, I got treated like a King.   We were outside the building for the launch, Behind a 2ft thick concrete wall with lots of vertical slits... I remember the noise... more-so the "feeling" of the launch noise.   Even with GI (grey) headphones on, the over-pressure on the ears made hearing anything else impossible... ears just went to static.  Once it was downrange I remember telling my dad how my insides shook.  A young lady in a white lab coat got down on one knee to be face to face with me, put her hands at the base of my ribs, shook me and told me that was a "visceral" experience.   She said if we were at the base of the launcher in a place away from all the heat and smoke, the noise, by itself, was so loud it would melt our skin.  Not burn it, just melt it. She said she measured the sound at over 200 decibles where we were.  I had no idea what that meant at the time.  But it stuck with me.

I relived that feeling as a teen watching top-fuel dragsters... 50 feet away you could feel them pounding on your chest. 

And again, as young JG standing on deck and watching another Tomcat launch in Zone 5 burner from 40 feet away.

Neither of those compared to being almost (I was told) 10,000ft out from a Saturn V

On Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 5:45:51 AM PDT, scott saidel <scott_saidel [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

Couldn’t see that in Florida. But I can see most launches from this side of the state, if the weather cooperates 

Was in Orlando yesterday for the Spacex launch. The glint of sunlight off the vehicle was visible with about 4” of flames. 

Used to go to Kennedy fir the shuttle launches. From 4 miles out it was a tactile experience 

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On Oct 3, 2020, at 12:05 AM, Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:



Awesome, thanks for that.

 

I did see the space station years ago when it passed by. I was quite amazed at how quickly it moved.

 

Peter

 

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From: Erik Nielsen
Sent: October 2, 2020 5:36 PM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] No Ferrari Content - Antares Launch

 

If you guys in the mid Atlantic are bored tonight, you may  be able to see the resupply for the international space station around 9:16 PM EST depending on the weather (and no gremlins).

 

 

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It sure beats watching the news and it is guaranteed to be faster than this year’s Ferrari F1 car.

 

NASA will have the live feed here.

 

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

 

 

 

 

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