Re: Recent KSC visit

[Rick DeNatale]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:00:21 -0400, Mike Flugennock wrote:

> What you'd probably need to do then -- if space allows -- if you want the
> entire Saturn stack without the perspective distortion, is to shoot frames
> while translating along the length of the vehicle while maintaining
> distance and viewing angle, instead of "swinging" from the hips and
> panning down the length of it.

Which would be easier to do with the horizontal Sat V at KSC than the
vertical full size model in Huntsville.

[Dan Foster]

In article >, Rusty B > wrote:
> "Roger Balettie" > wrote in message >...
>> I took the family on the obligatory summer vacation a couple of weeks ago...
>> this year was Orlando to meet Kathy's family there to do the "Disney thang".
>> I was able to squeeze a day over at KSC, though... the mandatory pictures
>> are here: http://www.balettie.com/gallery/KSC

Mr. Balettie -- nice pictures! Don't feel too bad about the amusing
juxtaposition of rockets. If anything, it actually kind of adds to it :)

I'll never forget my own trips to KSC in the summer with family, as well.

> Hey, that's a great idea for a movie. I can see it now:
>
> ''National Lampoon's Kennedy Space Center Vacation''.
>
> ''Clarke Griswold, the first space tourist launched from
> Kennedy Space Center.''

Sure, that sounds good... probably through some fantastical sequence of
bumbling through a tour :-) They could even be repeat Pig-in-a-Poke winners
to earn that vacation!

-Dan