Bob Shell wrote: > Funny, but I worked for Shutterbug magazine for almost 30 years. > Shutterbug's offices are in Titusville, FL, and just happen > to be right across the Indian River from the shuttle launch > site. The river bank behind our offices was just about the > closest you could get to a launch without a press pass. I > live in Virginia and went down to T'ville several times a > year for meetings. I was there many times when shuttle > launches were scheduled. > > It got to be a running joke that I was a jinx, because every > time I was down there for a launch I would cart my long lens > and tripod down to the river bank and set up to photograph > the launch, and every time the launch was scrubbed. I never > saw a shuttle launch live, only on TV.
LOL! What bad luck :-( Malcolm
