https://thomaslarock.com/2010/10/the-greatest-delay-ever/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://thomaslarock.com/2010/10/the-greatest-delay-ever/#comment-6372 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:40:40 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=4958#comment-6372 […] You may recall I was invited to the NASA Tweetup for STS-133 back in 2010. That launch was delayed by about 100 days, and I never made it to the actual launch. The week of STS-134 going up I was told about a tweet […]

]]> https://thomaslarock.com/2010/10/the-greatest-delay-ever/#comment-2947 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:37:45 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=4958#comment-2947 […] a Golden Ticket. I was selected to be a part of the NASA Tweetup for the STS-133 mission. As the original delay turned from a few days into over one hundred days my chances of going back dwindled. When STS-133 […]

]]> https://thomaslarock.com/2010/10/the-greatest-delay-ever/#comment-2008 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:46:59 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=4958#comment-2008 […] from the latest NASA Tweetup event. For those that may or may not recall, I was a member of the STS-133 Tweetup as well as this one. Why did I get two chance? Because of launch delays for STS-133 I didn’t […]

]]> https://thomaslarock.com/2010/10/the-greatest-delay-ever/#comment-2007 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:13:58 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=4958#comment-2007 […] Internet is Killing Our Culture. The book was recommended to me by one of the folks I met at the NASA tweetup last November as I was remarking about the differences between “old” and […]

]]> https://thomaslarock.com/2010/10/the-greatest-delay-ever/#comment-2006 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:51:36 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=4958#comment-2006 […] in terms of something that didn’t happen. The launch delay did allow for me to get some extra family time at the Magic Kingdom, so there was a lot of upside to this non-event. But I have had dreams of watching a rocket launch […]

]]> https://thomaslarock.com/2010/10/the-greatest-delay-ever/#comment-2005 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:36:01 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=4958#comment-2005 […] Last Friday I departed for Orlando with my family. The idea was for me to watch Discovery get launch on November 1st. I was going to take part in a Tweetup sponsored by NASA and be allowed to watch the launch from the media site about 3 miles away. While I took part in the Tweetup my family would visit the Magic Kingdom and when we were together we would hang out by the pool at our resort. Right before I left on Friday I got word that the launch was to be delayed. This meant that our Tweetup was pushed back as well, giving me all day Sunday to spend with my family. […]

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