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You missed it. I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned in the broadcasts before. Probably not explained though.
A good excuse to go back and watch all 45 launch webcasts again...
I sometimes lol at the perception of everything being new and exciting with spacex, but I suppose new interest in space is the real point, so...
“Slick” is not a spacex conjure. It has been used to phoneticise “SLC” on both coasts...probably since the day after the acronym was created. The most famous (if you can call it that) being “slick six”.
“Slick” is not a spacex conjure. It has been used to phoneticise “SLC” on both coasts...probably since the day after the acronym was created. The most famous (if you can call it that) being “slick six”.
Okay, good to know. I had not heard that pronunciation before and I’ve watched a lot of SpaceX launches at “slick forty”.I sometimes lol at the perception of everything being new and exciting with spacex, but I suppose new interest in space is the real point, so...
“Slick” is not a spacex conjure. It has been used to phoneticise “SLC” on both coasts...probably since the day after the acronym was created. The most famous (if you can call it that) being “slick six”.
ccutrer
Active Member
Here in SLC, SLC is Es El See (actually, I tend to call it Salt Lick City from one of those elementary school activities with pictorial versions of many state capitals. But I’m weird, and am always playing with words) but SLCC (a local community college) is Slick.
