Talk:Countdown (Rush song)

Red Sector A claim
This article claimed that the band viewed the launch of STS-1 from an area called Red Sector A by NASA inspiring the title of the song on the Grace Under Pressure album. The only reference I've found to this claim is in Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away By Martin Popoff and "A Simple Kind Mirror: The Lyrical Vision of Rush‎" by Leonard Roberto along with a number of websites that are simply mirroring the STS-1 and Countdown wikipedia articles (such as www.absoluteastronomy.com).

I've personally sat in the VIP viewing area at the Kennedy Space Center for STS-127 along side the Saturn V center and it's referred to the Banana Creek or simply VIP site by NASA. While the experience Peart was writing about was many years ago and nomenclature can change, I can find no evidence that NASA has ever referred to this viewing area or any other as "Red Sector A". The other viewing areas where VIPs regularly are transported to are the area near the Vehicle Assembly Building, better known as the Press Site and many congressional guests view launches from a causeway connecting the Kennedy Space Center with the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. I can find no NASA or similar reference that mentions anything approaching "Red Sector-A"

Without corroboration from a NASA source or at least a space source, it appears to be an often repeated urban legend of sorts.--RadioFan (talk) 02:11, 3 March 2010 (UTC)