http://chaseclark.com Gateway into the online world of Chase Clark. Are you the Keymaster? 2011-06-09T20:29:32Z hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://chaseclark.com/flying/blue-angels-practice/ 2011-06-09T00:08:29Z Chase Clark The Blue Angels – aka the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron – have been busy this week practicing in Pensacola. Already the Blues have performed three practice runs of their immensely popular air show. During several points of the practice, at least four of the colorful F/A-18 Super Hornets flew just a few hundred feet above [...] http://chaseclark.com/florida/super-boat-thunder-on-the-beach-2011/ 2011-05-23T18:33:38Z Chase Clark With Space Shuttle Endeavour safely docked to the ISS, I found myself with a free weekend down on the Space Coast. The Super Boat International’s first race of the season was being held that same weekend in Cocoa Beach. Sunny skies and hot temperatures made for a perfect day for the second annual Thunder on [...] http://chaseclark.com/uncategorized/best-of-2010/ 2011-01-11T02:07:42Z Chase Clark Here we are in 2011 and I figured I’d close the door on 2010 by listing the most often viewed postings on here from the previous year. 1. Stennis Space Center (By nearly a 2-to-1 margin over second place.) 2. Coral Castle (It is not the least bit uncommon to see someone end up here [...] http://chaseclark.com/florida/blue-angels-homecoming-air-show/ 2010-11-13T20:37:14Z Chase Clark I had just returned a few days earlier from the scrubbed launch attempt of Space Shuttle Discovery, when I got another chance to see some aerial thrust on full display. The Homecoming Air Show for the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels was being held the same week as Veterans Day and it was not to be [...] http://chaseclark.com/historic-landmarks/castillo-de-san-marcos/ 2010-11-06T21:58:56Z Chase Clark The drive between Pensacola and Kennedy Space Center is slightly over 500 miles and routinely takes between eight and nine hours. A bright side to this long journey to view space shuttle launches is that I can stop off in St. Augustine on the northeast coast of Florida and visit relatives. For the trip which [...] http://chaseclark.com/florida/red-sands-of-flagler-beach/ 2010-11-06T20:24:41Z Chase Clark Whenever I drive down to attend space launches at Kennedy Space Center, I always try to drive a coastal highway at least part of the way there or back. Highway A1A between Daytona Beach and St. Augustine provides a nice beach view and one that is a bit unique to the rest of the beaches [...] http://chaseclark.com/nasa/discovery-launch-scrub-sts133/ 2010-11-05T21:50:08Z Chase Clark The Space Shuttle doesn’t have to answer to the FAA regarding on-time takeoffs and landings. That is a good thing. Discovery wasn’t in the mood to launch the first week of November despite the presence of media and more than 100 members of social media site twitter attending an up-close and personal look at NASA.Twitter [...] http://chaseclark.com/florida/space-walk-park-museum/ 2010-11-04T19:37:08Z Chase Clark I was aware that there was the Space View Park in Titusville, but the existence of the U.S. Space Walk Hall of Fame and Museum was completely an unknown to me. That is until my visit to the area in early November for the scrubbed launch of Discovery on the STS-133 mission. During the May [...] http://chaseclark.com/florida/gleason-park-indian-harbour-beach/ 2010-11-04T16:49:48Z Chase Clark One of my favorite places in Florida is the coastal area of Brevard County. The communities of Satellite Beach, Indiatlantic and Indian Harbour Beach are just south of Cocoa Beach and Patrick Air Force Base. These three towns feel like home to me every time I visit. I’ve often driven by this gorgeous little park [...] http://chaseclark.com/nasa/astronaut-hall-of-fame/ 2010-11-03T20:19:58Z Chase Clark I’ve been to the Visitor’s Center at Kennedy Space Center many a time since first visiting Florida in 2006. Despite all those visits to see the Rocket Park and other sites of the Space Coast, I had never viewed the exhibits at the Astronaut Hall of Fame. That all changed when I headed down to [...]