https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astra-scrubs-first-orbital-launch/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 02:17:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astra-scrubs-first-orbital-launch/#comment-1077115 Tue, 03 Mar 2020 02:17:12 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=63980#comment-1077115 The two Astra mission “controllers” sporting the latest in blaze orange Mohawks was…interesting.
And, what was up with the nose fairing? Looked like a conestoga wagon with a heavy canvass cover stretched over a frame work.
The announcer did a nice job, but he surely misspoke when he said the five main motors had a combined thrust of 6,000 pounds?
(Sixty, perhaps?)
Sorry it didn’t go. Was looking forward to MaxQ.

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