My wife and I were there! We slept in the back of our Ford Escort after the drive in from Glendale on Friday night - it was a tight squeeze and very cold! We were 25 years old and had the world in front of us. I'm sure I have a VHS tape from this in a box somewhere, but I don't even have a VCR to view it even if I could find it. Thanks for sharing.
That's great! Yes, very cold in the morning. My friend slept in his pop-up tent and I slept in my truck under the camper shell. Grateful for the experience. Thanks for sharing 😊
I am glad you got the pre-dawn shots and pre-landing shots of this amazing landing at Edwards. Just by accident, my wife and I were moving from California in March 1989 with a U-Haul trailer pulled by a conversion van back to Missouri, and stopped at the "Shuttle Viewing Area, Next Exit" sign just west of Boron, CA, that magically appeared while listening to a radio broadcast that said they were landing the next day. Talk about luck! Anyway, the sea of people, and those "boronated" pancakes they were selling for $5 hahahahahaha (stood in line for an hour for those). It was something we never have forgot.
Looks like you had same issue leaving haha. I heard that particular one had more people than any other in history. 585,000 I believe. Were you on the north side of the flightline? Thinking we were way down to the south, as we arrived around 10pm previous night...
Yes, I believe so. We arrived the day before. That's an insane amount of people! I can believe it from what I saw. The line of people and vehicle's disappeared into the distance! 😎
Somethings not right here. The ISS wasn’t around in 1989. Unless you added video AND sound from a different mission. The crew pic shown at the start was not an ISS mission.
Yes, you are correct. I tried my hardest to find footage I could add to my video that showed the Shuttle landing at Edwards. I was able to download these from C-SPAN.
In hindsight, there's great disappointment and probably regret that so many shuttle missions were spent ferrying parts up to that international space station. On those missions, almost no scientific operations occurred. It's the opinion of many at NASA that those missions should have instead been devoted to scientific discovery.
My wife and I were there! We slept in the back of our Ford Escort after the drive in from Glendale on Friday night - it was a tight squeeze and very cold! We were 25 years old and had the world in front of us. I'm sure I have a VHS tape from this in a box somewhere, but I don't even have a VCR to view it even if I could find it. Thanks for sharing.
That's great! Yes, very cold in the morning. My friend slept in his pop-up tent and I slept in my truck under the camper shell. Grateful for the experience. Thanks for sharing 😊
I am glad you got the pre-dawn shots and pre-landing shots of this amazing landing at Edwards. Just by accident, my wife and I were moving from California in March 1989 with a U-Haul trailer pulled by a conversion van back to Missouri, and stopped at the "Shuttle Viewing Area, Next Exit" sign just west of Boron, CA, that magically appeared while listening to a radio broadcast that said they were landing the next day. Talk about luck! Anyway, the sea of people, and those "boronated" pancakes they were selling for $5 hahahahahaha (stood in line for an hour for those). It was something we never have forgot.
It was an event for sure! Great story, thanks for sharing. 😎
This video should have 100,000 views
Awesome flying brick! 👍
Looks like you had same issue leaving haha. I heard that particular one had more people than any other in history. 585,000 I believe. Were you on the north side of the flightline? Thinking we were way down to the south, as we arrived around 10pm previous night...
Yes, I believe so. We arrived the day before. That's an insane amount of people! I can believe it from what I saw. The line of people and vehicle's disappeared into the distance! 😎
@@tomorrow517 yes that was our first impression, it was like a drive in theater that went on forever!
Viewers beware: The NASA footage shown is from much later than 1989. CSPAN-2 did not exist until 2001. My guess is that this is STS-128 (2009).
Good catch. No wonder I couldn't find landing footage for the earlier date. Thanks for watching.
This was my cousin's first flight.
Sounds like it could be some good '77 or '78 Dead there at the end of the video
Somethings not right here. The ISS wasn’t around in 1989. Unless you added video AND sound from a different mission. The crew pic shown at the start was not an ISS mission.
Yes, you are correct. I tried my hardest to find footage I could add to my video that showed the Shuttle landing at Edwards. I was able to download these from C-SPAN.
In hindsight, there's great disappointment and probably regret that so many shuttle missions were spent ferrying parts up to that international space station. On those missions, almost no scientific operations occurred. It's the opinion of many at NASA that those missions should have instead been devoted to scientific discovery.
Sure is noisy for not having a jet engine or rockets running.