Re: Korea to launch its first rocket August 19
Launch is still going ahead today at 5 pm in Korea, and fuel insertion will begin at 3 pm. Launch time would be 4 am in New York, 9 am in London. Looks like most people on this site (besides Australia etc.) will be asleep when it happens.
I'm also following the launch and the reaction afterwards on
Page F30, where I might translate some content from Korean after the launch and see how the country reacts as a whole to the launch if it turns out to be successful. Korea until now hasn't been all that interested in space, no wonder since it wasn't even until recently that they had even been able to send anyone from Korea there.
Another site to keep an eye on is
this one run by a friend of mine here (originally from Pittsburgh), because he lives very near the launch site (a city called Suncheon) and has also been keeping an eye on the launch preparations. I think we should pester him to go visit there directly to take some photographs and talk to people at the space centre in Goheung. It would take me most of the day just to get down there from Seoul where I am.