of some sort. Club frequented and I would camp there and watch the goings on launches in stuff. 
at altitude in pik below.
I am a retired Broadcast Engineer and worked for a local station in Orlando. We covered all the launches at the Cape. I had a top security clearance pass where I would drive the production truck over the day before a launch and park it next to the control room bunker and connect to a patch bay on the outside of the building where I would connect our truck to their system for the video and audio feeds plus 3 cameras from our truck then the A/V to a Sat uplink truck. The truck was my responsibility so I would hang all day, go home at dinner, take a nap and drive back in the middle of the night for the launch. I had full access to the control room just like you see in the movies, I wasn’t permitted to read any of the notes at the stations. When they were about to launch I ran the CCUs, Camera Control Units that controls all the inputs of the camera feeds. We were only a couple hundred yards from the pad and when one of those things went off the whole truck would shake like we were in a major earthquake, very very exciting. Then pack it all up and back to home base.
We can see the launches from our back porch. Here a pix of a launch at dawn. It was some special weather condition, I forget what they called it. The rocket is in
the lower white candle looking section directly above the pine tree in the lower 1/3 of the shot. The rocket is going away from cam and the exhaust goes white when it hits the sunlight coming up over the horizon.
