From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Final Shuttle Launch is still a Go
Date: Thu,  7 Jul 2011 20:23:05 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> My ex, who worked as an engineer at KSC on both Shuttle and Station
> for 17 years, used to tell me that after something blew up, they
> kept a piece of duct tape somewhere highly visible, with a sign by
> it that read "DO NOT LAUNCH IF SKY IS THIS COLOR!!!"

Rocket scientists and steely-eyed missile men (and women) are such
humorists.  I've heard that printed on the top of the Saturn V rocket
was "THIS END UP."