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Originally Posted by sammyg2
When i was a kid, several times a year mom would make a picnic lunch and pack my brothers and I in the station wagon and we'd meet my dad for lunch at his work. We'd drive to an observation point and watch the solid fuel rocket motor test firings. Some were big, some smaller, but it was always a big deal to us.
IIRC the Polaris motor was one of em.
More recent tests at same site:
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that's cool! For us a day like that was a drive to Newark airport's observation deck to watch the planes come and go. Yeah I know, that was 40 years before the Towers came down.
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