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It still pretty good, and you don’t have to “suffer” the KSC’ dumb tour before reaching the spot. Also, 2 hours of traffic jams and waiting lines before reaching the S-V center... —— Back to the topic, here are two pictures of the 39A (Falcon is hardly visible with the launch tower):

Are you going to the S-V Center or in Port Canaveral?

07/10 - Seeing you at a daily rate.

(I remember when I was a kid, we were snapping out small pieces from asbestos tiles, and throwing them into a fire and watching the sparks and the special crunchy sound that it emitted. We were more than stupid, but that being said people never warned us, we did not even know what the asbestos was)

This one! At first I thought the carrier potentially was the Akagi, but the bridge of the real one being on port, I was pretty confused for a second. Then I saw your battleship, looking like a Nagato-class and rifling the carrier. So... couldn't the carrier being the Yorktown or the Lexington?

I had the opposite (!), when I saw Bluebird: The Afterlife, a wonderful story at first, I was thinking "Bluebird, it seems like a fan fic', it couldn't be about "The" K7." I should have clicked earlier... --- I do not remember how much, but I gave a small sum to this group around 2005-2006 when I discovered their fantastic project to "revive" K7. I had no more than around 20 GBP of monthly money at this time At the same period I was discovering this awesome video (to me...), featuring some shot from the TV-movie Accross the Lake (1988), and starring Hopkins as Campbell, with the whole track Out of This World that Marillion had composed in honor of the pilot:

Between the sensor size, the sensor type, the effective pixel, the shutter speed, the ISO, the max aperture, etc. the list is pretty long... I remember how amazed I was when I first shot with the Sony W100. It was thirteen years ago; a pocket camera with 8 MP and a 16 gb card? Woot woot! Today even a standard cellphone camera could *potentially* do a better work. With the W100: With an iPhone 6 (not even an S variant):

Another one was the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) in 2015, and which is located at the L1 point.

Two days of delay, but I finally found time to share some pictures of the launch of PSN 6/Beresheet/S5 (the distance was 5.5 km this time) : (A Star is Born 2 ? Would be more interesting than the first opus for sure...)

X-post from the lounge.

Two days. It arrived at the 39A at dawn on the 22nd of January, and was rolled-back on the 24th after the successful static fire.

And here is the beauty and the fun of a launch: So many people present tonight!

I know I'm supposed to destroy your arm but... ... Let's make peace instead. That's what Arnie should have done in the first...

Wow, the AOV-CSG took much better shots than usual !!! Slow-mo' only, but still more enjoyable than the traditional recordings they are uploading.

Same as @Green Baron, former PPL(A), with uninteresting IFR, MER, and some "special field" clearances (TFFJ, TFFS, TFFB (nothing exceptional)). Stopped almost four years ago now... However, I wish I could have afforded the PPL(H) before I stopped.

Banned for a profile pic' reminding me a Rubin's vase.

N969NA, standing close to the Atlantis Building. Plus some pictures taken in... The USS Drum (SS-228) This Is Redstone! Actually the first true PGM-11 I ever saw, all the others were "civilian" variants. The B-52D Calamity Jane (550071) with the USS Alabama (BB-60) An Iraqi T-55, picked up during Desert Storm. The size of the Pershing's muzzle brake has always amazed me. The two guys were singing My Heart Will Go On. Would you mind a pinch of 406 mm? If only these Mark 6 could have breathed out one last time for us

Her: The HMS Belfast. Wonderful museum, much of the cruiser can be visited, and there is even an original 28 cm shell from the Scharnhorst (IIRC they got it following the battle of the North Cape in 43’) Also, the Royal Air Force Museum is absolutely incredible: (who wouldn’t like to see a Vulcan?)

Wow! I didn't know the original ASTP CSM-111 module was kept and displayed (the NASM is displaying a mock-up of the two craft IIRC). (This shirt tho)

I went to visit the museum of the USS Alabama (BB-35) during last December, turrets no. 1 & 2 are open and somewhat accessible, here is a picture of the (monstrous) telemeter and the post of its own fire director in the 2nd turret:

Fried on.