Where are we in the countdown for today’s launch? kenneth chang So Ken, at this point, it’s about 1:20 p.m. But I’ll be outside the whole time and with a mask and at least six feet away from everyone else. So when I go there, I’ll get to watch it. The visitor’s center, where the public usually gathers for the launch, is closed. So because of the coronavirus, NASA’s basically limiting the number of people there.
What’s it look like right now? kenneth chang I know you’re not there, but you’re soon to be there. Give me the scene there in Florida at the Kennedy Space Center. I’m actually currently in a Hampton Inn in Titusville, which is 20 minutes from the Kennedy Space Center. michael barbaroīut if you had to guess, how many fly-ins and fly-outs have you made to try to watch a space launch? kenneth changĪnd that’s where you are right now, when we say fly in, fly out, you are “in” at the moment. So I would just fly in in, fly out, fly in, fly out, and not even see a launch. Because especially with the space shuttle, they would postpone the launch at the last second a gazillion times. And I’ve actually made more trips than that. And there was a few other scattered ones. Because I started covering these at the end of the space shuttle era.
Ken, how many space launches have you covered in your career? kenneth chang Science reporter Kenneth Chang on the dawn of a new era in space travel. Today: For the first time in history, a private company is sending astronauts into space. michael barbaroįrom The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. Davis Lin How SpaceX is ushering in a new era in the exploration of the cosmos. Transcript Listen to ‘The Daily’: Space Travel, Privatized Hosted by Michael Barbaro produced by Alexandra Leigh Young, Michael Simon Johnson and Jessica Cheung with help from Sydney Harper and Luke Vander Ploeg and edited by M.J.
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