07-10-2017, 03:19 PM
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Old Submariner
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Home of Wayne & Garth
Posts: 7,781
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Originally Posted by A Fish Named Wallyum
My first Centaur launch would be its one and only flight. The booster landed in the ONLY puddle on the field at VOA that day. If I sat in it I'd have barely gotten my pants wet, but the **** booster found it. Swelled things enough that no amount of sanding would ever allow me to feel comfortable about trying to stage it again. Great flight, though.
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I feel your pain. In the 80's when I was flying every weekend in the summer, water features were the bane of my exsistance. SV's, Atlases, MR's, etc,--all drowned. Arguably the worst loss was possibly the AstroCam 110 with 21 exposures on the cartridge: came down in a tiny, tiny pond at the edge of a 20 acre field.
If I'd launched a rocket in the Sahara it would have somehow come down in water.
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