NASA nostalgia / Pluto launch

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I heard it was going up today and on an Atlas too. Thats a big booster if I recall. Seems to me the last one of those that took off from out here at Vandenburg AFB was a number of years ago.

My Dad worked as a Sales Engineer for North American Rockwell in Downey, CA back in the 60's. That's where the Apollo Command Module was built and later, the Space Shuttle. We always got to go down after the capsule had been recovered and take a peek inside. Unfortunately, I was never able to view a Saturn V launch over in Florida but that was in an exciting day when they'd pull you out of class and everyone would pile into the cafeteria and watch a launch or perhaps a return on a small by today's standards, black & white TV if it happened during school hours.

I wish people would treat it the same these days but that's wishful thinking. It IS fun thinking how neat things were back then!