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Old 05-12-2008, 10:15 PM
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Default Re: Place to view space shuttle launch


Below is what my son emailed to me when we were planning to go see a shuttle but then did not make it. He said there were vendors there and port a toilets.

http://www.google.com/maps?q=8+Broad...ges%2C+FL&rl=1
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>> You end up coming into Titusville the same way do when we go from here.
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>> If it were a weekend and lots of people were expected, you might instead
>> take 441 to 46 to US 1 and head down since less people go that way. But
>> on a weekday, taking the turnpike and 528 is faster.
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>> There is limited parking at the park and in a field across from the park.
>> But if it's really crowded, there's a nearby grocery store where we
>> parked once or twice. There was no sign that the business objected to
>> people parking there. It's about a block or two from the park between
>> Washington Ave and Hopkins Ave (which make up US 1 at that point) at
>> Garden St. To get to the grocery store, you'd either not turn on Broad
>> St or go back up Broad St or Orange St. to Washington and go right. The
>> store is on the left a block up.
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