Re: SS1 Crowd

From: Rick Jones (foo_at_bar.baz.invalid.retro.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

To: sci-space-tech@moderators.isc.org
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:50:08 GMT

nospam@nowhere.nil.retro.com wrote:
> While I can't add anything technical, I was very encouraged to see
> the large crowd that turned out to watch.

And why not - Mojave is such a garden spot afterall :) I'm just glad
they opened the parking lot early, I suspect it made things go much
more smoothly. It also made it possible to be at the fence (even with
the CAP guys doggedly trying to maintain that 3 foot clearance :) at
the south end of the viewing area - I wonder if they have a zoomed
image of the crowd :)

I was surprised that as many people left immediately after touchdown
as did - having waited as long as most had, had they waited 20 minutes
more they'd have gotten to see "the sign" being held-up.

rick jones 

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