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Bruce Bennett - Aug 08,2005
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Well, before I went to bed Sunday night I took one Darvocet for the annoying pain in my shoulder, from the Rotator Cuff Tear Repair and removal of the Clavicular joint to remove 2 bone spurs surgery. The Darvocet usually knocks me out, kills the pain and helps me sleep. Not tonight, I'm sub-consciously waiting to hear the Sonic Booms of the shuttle Discovery, at 4:17am. Now I'm not associated with NASA in any way, but living in Florida you can't help but be involved in some way.<br /><br />So I had a very un-restful sleep, and during my one hour catnaps, I inadvertantly open my eyes and I see it's 5:09am, and I think........no Sonic Booms!! I immediately get up and put on the NASA channel, channel 15 here in Florida, and I'm feeling a little better, NASA is talking to Eileen Collins.<br /><br />I change the channels trying desperately to find out what happened; all the channels have commercials going on. Then finally I get one channel and they say the shuttle is delayed for 24 hours because of low clouds at the Kennedy Space Center. Now I'm feeling much better, I go back to bed, and still cannot sleep; so I decide to get up turn on the computer and just 'talk' about it. The first thing that I see on the computer is the death of Peter Jennings, the start of a sad day, indeed! It is now 6:09am!<br /><br />Now I get to do this all over again tonight, they'll be sounding the Sonic Booms at 5:08am this Tuesday morning!! I'm sure I'm not the only Floridian who went through this scenario this Monday in the early am!!<br /><br /> Judy<br /><br /><br />
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Kenneth Leonard - Aug 08,2005
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Judy, I'm sorry your hurting but glad you appear to be healing. It's funny, I couldn't sleep last night either, but it was because I WAS hearing booms...somehow, the floor next to my bed just isn't as comfortable as the crappy mattress. I look pretty comical trying to roll over with a helmut and flack jacket on! 'I've fallen and I can't get up' <br /><br />Let's pray they all arrive home safely. I say we hire Burt Rutan to make future deliveries to the space station. He'd be ready before the next shuttle and way cheaper.
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Bruce Bennett - Aug 09,2005
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Charlie, I really like that idea,,,,'when I'm 18 again.... I'll be healed!! It doesn't matter where Discovery landed, just so it landed safely. JB
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Frank A. Carr - Aug 09,2005
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Don't get carried away about the safe landing; the mission was a failure. The redesign of the foam on the ET failed, so our friends in Huntsville are back to their drawing boards. Until they come up with a design that doesn't shed tank foam and other pieces, the Shuttle cannot fly. The next shoe to drop might be that there is not enough funding this or next fiscal year to keep flying failed test flights.
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Frank A. Carr - Aug 09,2005
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Judy,<br />I did the same thing, up early, listen to NTV--all quiet--so switch to network news, saw the banner under the useless banter, changed alarm clock, etc., etc. Never heard the booms the next day from EAFB tho.<br />I did check the radar and weather around the Cape and decided that I would fly there VFR (theoretically); I wonder how a few clouds below a 10,000 deck with great visibility is more risk than dark in the desert. I guess they like night landings, those retired AF folk.
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