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#15 Air traffic is kept more than 40 miles from the launch site.
On a clear day I can watch a shuttle launch from my backyard and I am 300 miles from the launch site. I miss the first 60,000 feet or so.
It always make me proud when I see the space shuttle take off and bring material to the international space station to do useless research for other countries. The fact that it’s the most expensive way to get cargo up in space is especially impressive. What other country can piss so much money away that it doesn’t have. Only in America baby!
I have a slide almost IDENTICAL to this image of a launch in the 80′s that I saw from an airliner in roughly the same position.
Of course, I can’t FIND the slide, but it must be somewhere in the house.
Great memories.
You can fly 30 nautical miles from pad 39-A. The temporary flight rules (TFR) are in effect several hours before and after the scheduled launch time.
At FL-300 (30,000 ft.) and CAVU (clear and visibility unlimited) you can see 50 nautical miles easy.
FAA Part 91, Part 125, operations are prohibited within a 30 nautical mile radius of Launch Pad 39-A from the surface to but not including 18,000 feet.
Within an airspace radius between 30 and 40 nautical miles of Pad 39-A, a discrete transponder code must be obtained and clearance granted from air traffic control before entering this airspace. Continuous radio communications must be maintained.
what #22 said. I never understood how the shuttle made sense. it costs a ton of money to send a pound of something into space. let’s build the heaviest thing we can to haul it. all in the name of politics and providing jobs for our constituents . yay! america!!!