Do you still watch space launches?

NG 2 just launched from Cape Canaveral (3:55 EST). It's carrying multiple probes to orbit Mars. Thousands cheered the textbook launch and those thousands cheered louder for the landing of the first stage booster upright on a platform!
I remember watching most of the launches. I had a poster in my bedroom of all the capsules and rockets. I remember watching the moon landing glued to the chair literally. (It was a sweaty July and the chair was naugahyde.

Me? I'm watching now and when it gets to Mars.

You forgot to have a selection of "I try to, but regretfully miss most of them."

I picked the closest choice.

I am often in Central Florida.

I really wanted to see NG 2, even though it was a daytime launch and I would have been 25+ miles away. But good for them! They needed this success.

I wanna see this big bastard go up at night. And Artemis. And Starship. The Saturn 5 would have given me massive wood if I had been old enough to have wood back then. But these babies...whoohoo! Light the fucking candle!

(I built a Saturn 5 model when I was a little kid. I forgot to wash my hands when I put on the decals and it had filthy little-kid fingerprints all over it. I didn't care! I forced everyone that I knew to watch me show them all of the stages and how they worked. I paid ZERO attention to their yawns and glances at their wrist watches)

I saw a night time launch of the shuttle from Port Canaveral. The solid fuel boosters were tied off next to the ship I was working on. A couple of years later, I saw shuttle transporter flying over NOLA with a shuttle on board.

They say those solid-fuel booster launches were fucking spectacular. Even more so than Saturn 5.

I watched most of the launches during the construction of the ISS as well as most of the spacewalks.

Mort, you should go to the Johnston Space Center.
The display of an actual Saturn V is worth the trip alone.
I was in awe of it. Took a friend from europe and he loved it too.

Mort, you should go to the Johnston Space Center.
The display of an actual Saturn V is worth the trip alone.
I was in awe of it. Took a friend from europe and he loved it too. Originally Posted by Precious_b

I have seen the one they have at Kennedy several times. But from pics, it looks like the one at Johnson is better.

I'm more impressed with the "chopsticks" catching the booster when they return. That's some ba-dass chite right there.