IT WAS CRYSTAL CLEAR YESTERDAY. THERE WAS NOT ONE MEASLY CLOUD IN THE SKY. HUMIDITY WAS MINUTE. THE ATLAS ROCKET CARRYING A WEATHER SATELLITE BLASTED OFF FROM CAPE CANAVERAL JUST AFTER SUNSET. THE LOCAL CABLE CHANNEL DIDN'T EVEN ANNOUNCE THE IMPENDING BLAST OFF.
THERE WERE NO LIVE PICTURES. WHO KNEW? IT WAS SCHEDULED IN THE FLORIDA TODAY PAPER RIGHT ON THE FRONT PAGE. I BOUGHT THE PAPER AND FORGOT TO CHECK FOR THE LAUNCH OR LOOK UP IN THE SKY TOWARD THE INDIAN RIVER THREE BLOCKS AWAY.
JUST LIKE WASHINGTON HAS DECIDED TO IGNORE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER EMPLOYEES SO HAS MUCH OF THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC.
EARTH TO YANKEGOHOME: IT WAS A DELTA ROCKET. PEOPLE WATCHED. IT WAS RIGHT ON THE FRONT PAGE OF FLORIDA TODAY. THE PHOTO SHOWED PEOPLE WATCHING FROM THE ROTARY PARK PIER IN TITUSVILLE.
ReplyDeletePRESIDENT OBAMA WILL COME TO THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER IN APRIL TO DO AN OFFICIAL HATCHET JOB ON THE SPACE PROGRAM AND 9000 Kennedy Space Center jobs plus the 14,000 more trickle down unemployment jobs on the Space Coast. The Space Coast paper will then change its name to FLORIDA YESTERDAY.
All engineers will head West in a Trail of Tears like the Cherokee in the 19th Century.
Russia who can't even run a Chernobyl Nuclear Energy plant properly will blast off our Astronauts to the Big Condo in the Sky formerly known as The INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION-another Florida condo overbuilt as the government stood by unaware that the US(and World Economy ) would crash due to lack of government surveillance. Even Greenspan had no idea that the subprime mortgage crisis was so bad.Who knew?