7/8/2006: Turtle at Discovery launch

astrodex · 07-08-2006, 07:18 PM

I grew up in Florida. We called these Gopher Turtles and they were quite plentiful when I was a kid. At summer camp we would hold Gopher Turtle races; give them names like "Seatle Slow" and paint their shells. Jetty Park is as close as I ever got to a launch (saw the first moon launch from a highway that looked like a parking lot when I was 4), but I don't think I would want to be that close.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-08-2006, 08:28 PM

The press gets closer, don't they?
The turtle is a trotter not a pacer.

07-08-2006, 08:28 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The press gets closer, don't they? The turtle is a trotter not a pacer. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-08-2006, 07:18 PM	#1
astrodex May Ter Dee Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Cambridge, MA Posts: 26	I grew up in Florida. We called these Gopher Turtles and they were quite plentiful when I was a kid. At summer camp we would hold Gopher Turtle races; give them names like "Seatle Slow" and paint their shells. Jetty Park is as close as I ever got to a launch (saw the first moon launch from a highway that looked like a parking lot when I was 4), but I don't think I would want to be that close.

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