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heng44
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posted 04-09-2006 05:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Twenty-five years ago this month I was at the Kennedy Space Center to cover the launch of STS-1. It was an experience I will never forget. Two days after launch I also saw the landing at the Dryden Flight Research Center. To commemorate the flight I will post a daily photo, giving a day-by-day account of some of the things I saw during that exciting week.

This is a photo I took myself, while standing near the pad perimeter of Launch Complex 39A at KSC in the early evening of April 9, 1981. This was part of the so-called ‘sunset tour’, where a few busloads of reporters were driven out to the pad to watch the sun sink behind the Columbia. It was a magnificent sight!

Ed Hengeveld

Tom
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posted 04-09-2006 10:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tom   Click Here to Email Tom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ed...great shot to have John and Crip autograph!

Moonpaws
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posted 04-09-2006 10:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Moonpaws   Click Here to Email Moonpaws     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It sure looks terrific with the main tank
painted white. Did they have foam issues
when paint was used?

Tom
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posted 04-09-2006 11:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tom   Click Here to Email Tom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I believe that question was brought up in a news conference following the STS-114 launch last July.
If I remember correctly, the answer was yes, that there was foam loss with both the unpainted (brown) tank and the white one used on STS-1 and 2.

CJC
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posted 04-09-2006 04:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for CJC   Click Here to Email CJC     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ED,

These photos of yours are amazing and fantastic! It brings back so many memories of that time. Keep them coming!

CJC

cddfspace
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posted 04-09-2006 04:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for cddfspace   Click Here to Email cddfspace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ed,

Excellent shot! Thanks for sharing!

CDDFSPACE

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