Sep 172016
Woo.
The engineering of this attempt was clearly better than Evel Kneivels shot 40 years ago… but the *psychology* of it doesn’t seem to be there. I was just a youngun when Evel made his attempt, but I remember it being Big News, while this one was nearly stealthy by comparison. And the choice of putting the viewing area where the spectators would be looking STRAIGHT AT THE SUN? Lame. There also doesn’t seem to have been an accurate countdown… a lot of the videos make it look like the people were a little surprised at just when the thing launched.