Saturday, June 10, 2023

Say, Cheese?

Thursday's test-flight scrubbed in view of the fact that the flying field we've used in the past ~ successfully, as it happened ~ belongs to the Frome Cheese Show, who've co-opted it this week for their annual cheese-fest. I wish I'd made this up, for to my knowledge even SpaceX do not count such an eventuality amongst their various pre-launch setbacks (though the first cargo their Dragon spacecraft flew into orbit was in fact a wheel of French Brouère, in homage to the Monty Python 'cheese-shop' sketch.)

You have to laugh, or else you'd cry.

Launch rescheduled for June 20-23.