2/But that was about it for reporters at the Cape. This is what the New York Times ran about the launch in the next day's paper.pic.twitter.com/TSw96l1FH7
1/Only difference vs. pre-Internet: pre-Internet, planetary mission launches were hardly covered at all. Checked Nexis re: '97 Cassini launch. LAT was there, WaPo used Bill Harwood. Seth Borenstein of Orlando Sentinel. CNN was live.
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3/Launch is the least interesting part of the mission (unless it blows up, of course). All of the work designing and building the spacecraft has been done elsewhere already. All of the important science is yet to come.
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