Back to the pad to begin again
STS-26 rollout: Return from the ashes. The last event I attended on the KSC as accredited media. Rollout began around midnight and concluded with hard-down on the pad, just after full daylight. My first trip to Perimeter Road at Complex 39-A had been for Apollo 9, in March of 1969. Until STS-3, I had not missed a US manned space mission. After that, they came so quickly that I was unable to get time off from my regular job ( the one that paid my bills ) for all of them. I had to start prioritizing which missions to try for. After STS-26, everyone had to re-qualify for access on a flight by flight basis.
Back to the pad to begin again
STS-26 rollout: Return from the ashes. The last event I attended on the KSC as accredited media. Rollout began around midnight and concluded with hard-down on the pad, just after full daylight. My first trip to Perimeter Road at Complex 39-A had been for Apollo 9, in March of 1969. Until STS-3, I had not missed a US manned space mission. After that, they came so quickly that I was unable to get time off from my regular job ( the one that paid my bills ) for all of them. I had to start prioritizing which missions to try for. After STS-26, everyone had to re-qualify for access on a flight by flight basis.