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Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 5:41 PM
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One in about 15 minutes. Another one in a few hours.
I live less than 40 miles, as the crow flies, from Cape Canaveral. I can see the launch until second stage cutoff. Never get tired of it.
And, with SpaceX, I get 2 or 3 launches a week some weeks. Don't get to see all of them (cloud cover, doing other things) but I get to see enough that I still enjoy them. And, the most amazing thing to me is the stage one booster flies back to earth and lands either at the cape or on a barge off the coast of the Bahamas.
There are still some highly intelligent and highly educated people around.
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Orange Blooded [2594]
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 6:06 PM
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Enjoy!
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 6:11 PM
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Just watched it from Daytona with the 8 and 4 year old!!!
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CU Medallion [53887]
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Bret...you need to load one on Youtube and post it here...***
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Mar 30, 2024, 6:11 PM
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Hall of Famer [22519]
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Nah, I'm far enough away....
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Mar 30, 2024, 9:13 PM
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.... a video wouldn't be appreciated. It would just be a small orange spot in the sky.
I watch it on youtube till blastoff. Then I go outside and watch it in person, while having the youtube channel loaded on my phone and watching that along with my eyeball view.
Here is the channel I use on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwFxUfwf9Z4
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Heisman Winner [119794]
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Young Sheldon wrote the formula
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Mar 30, 2024, 6:13 PM
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For landing the boosters
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 6:22 PM
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That's awesome!!! I an an astronaut at heart. I would love to see all those launches.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 7:49 PM
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LOL, I can't imagine ever getting crazy enough to set my butt over Thousands of pounds/gallons of rocket fuel and wait for someone to ignite it, I just don't think so. I think space travel is something very much needed for our country and others bc they learn a lot of things in the weightlessness environment away from earths gravity that helps in all kinds of ways, especially with medicine I've been told, and it's a very good thing they find people a lot crazier than me to sit their life over a rocket bc there is really no way to tell when the next leaky O ring will be exposed like it did with the space shuttle Challenger that blew up about 73 seconds after liftoff. All those folks never even heard the explosion before they were blown into tiny little pieces.
When that shuttle blew up, I admit that I cried like a baby with Collick, but my pain was coming from my heart and the thought of those families losing one of the closest people in their lives in a split second, and it took months for my heart to heal enough that I wouldn't break down from the thoughts of what had happen that morning I watched that shuttle liftoff from my couch when I was living on Bougainvillea loop in Aliamanu crater military housing in Honolulu Hawaii, and I remember it like it happened just yesterday. Not me, I'm not sitting my butt on top of a rocket loaded with Thousands of Gallons of Highly Explosive Rocket Fuel, Not Me, and not for any amount of money!!!
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Hall of Famer [22519]
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I saw the Challenger blow up.
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Mar 30, 2024, 9:17 PM
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I was at school and was out jogging. It was a clear day, not a cloud in the sky. The eeriest part to me was there was almost no wind, and what little there was had the "cloud of death" drifting slowly toward me. An hour later the cloud was still in the sky.
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From earlier this year.
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Mar 30, 2024, 6:39 PM
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Amazing right at sundown when the light hits it right.
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My favorite time to watch a launch...
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Mar 30, 2024, 9:18 PM
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... is at dusk. Right after sundown, but still light enough you could be playing golf. The sun glistening off the rocket with the bright orange flame just below it is awesome.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 6:41 PM
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I’m sorry
I thought you meant launching an elephant into outer space and out of the NCAA tournament!
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Too bad Biden wasnt attached to the
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Mar 30, 2024, 6:46 PM
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Very bottom of it.
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Re: Too bad Biden wasnt attached to the
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Mar 30, 2024, 6:54 PM
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With Trump holding onto his ankles. 2 🤡’s
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Re: Too bad Biden wasnt attached to the
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Mar 30, 2024, 7:54 PM
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What's to bad, is that Trump wasn't in one of the seats on the space shuttle Challenger, now that would have gave me reason to feel something for him...
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You must be anti American for sure
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Mar 30, 2024, 8:17 PM
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Love the absolute crap show past 4 years. Go charge your pos car.
allorangeallthetime52®
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Re: You must be anti American for sure
Apr 1, 2024, 8:57 AM
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Yes I'm sure he hates America. He seems like a commie pinko.... Wait, go have a chill pill bro! No need to get so angry ab politicians. They all lie. Even Trumpy wumpy.
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Mind your own gd business! Captain****
Mar 31, 2024, 12:07 AM
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All-American [572]
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Biden's having his fun with..
Mar 31, 2024, 12:05 AM
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with someone's young child about right. But Im just glad having the EPA emissions test diesel fueled trucks out of existence by 2032. President Chester the child molester Joe Biden...sick pos
Trump in 2024
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Re: Biden's having his fun with..
Apr 1, 2024, 8:59 AM
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Troll!
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 7:01 PM
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Live long and prosper. 🖖
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March 10th SpaceX launch downrange picture
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Mar 30, 2024, 7:02 PM
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Here is a picture of the SpaceX launch on 3/10 form Anegada Island in the British Virgin Islands. This is about 8 minutes after launch.
I don't know why the image rotated 90 degrees!!
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Re: March 10th SpaceX launch downrange picture
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Mar 30, 2024, 7:14 PM
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Wojo - Did you take that with Spud's camera???
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 7:07 PM
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I read that SpaceX was releasing another 22 Starlink satellites on this launch. I also saw where N Korea had another missile blow-up yesterday trying their new found Russian technology they are getting for all the Ammo they send Putin.
That said, all these launches really affect our atmosphere according to some scientists by blowing big holes in the stratosphere and burning up tons of ozone. I read that one launch does more damage than 7500 hundred cars used daily for a year. True or not??? But I watch a lot of space docs and at some point our orbit is going to be cluttered with trash that we can't even launch passenger rockets and I want to see man on Mars one day before its my time.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 8:01 PM
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They working on a propulsion system for that trip as we talk on T-Net!!!
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 8:14 PM
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Hope it happens! They are working on a big slingshot that will send rockets past the 62 mile mark that will substantially reduce fuel cost, carbon footprint, but there will be size limitations to small satellites.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
Apr 1, 2024, 9:03 AM
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I do not understand this comment. 6 2 mile?
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 8:43 PM
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Can be quite the spectacle. Here is a photo from the beach near my house. Was one of the early StarLink launches.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 8:47 PM
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Back in the eighties I saw the flames from a night launch here in the low country.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 8:50 PM
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I saw SpaceX come over last spring in Summerville SC. I stopped on side of road to take pic and about 5-6 other cars pulled over behind me to do the same. Took me a min to figure out what it was and others were oblivious and thought it was meteor.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
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Mar 30, 2024, 11:20 PM
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I watched Apollo 17 launch from the roof of Lever Hall!!!
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Thanks for sharing
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Mar 30, 2024, 11:27 PM
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Catching a rocket launch is definitely on my bucket list. I hope I have a chance to go down to Florida to catch a launch one day.
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Ever see any Trisolaran space craft in the sky?...
Mar 30, 2024, 11:49 PM
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anything strange or unidentifiable?
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No they wont be here for another 400 years***
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I like them as well. Was in Orlando at a class many moons back and there
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Mar 31, 2024, 5:57 AM
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was a night shuttle launch. We drove over to a place across a bay or lake from the launch. The launch visually was great. But when the sound finally rumbled across the water and hit us it was amazing!
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
Apr 1, 2024, 7:41 AM
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Parents took me to see Apollo 14 launch when I was a kid. Unbelievable. Had a chance to co-op at the Cape in school, but couldn't save any needed money going down there, still have some regrets about that.
I read that SpaceX is evaluating the Cape for a future Starship launch site, now wouldn't that be a sight.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
Apr 1, 2024, 7:57 AM
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In 1994 I was stationed in Orlando and saw one of the shuttle's launch. Even from that far away we could see the stage boost, lost sight of it as it rotated out of sight heading east. I was in Daytona in January when Spacex launched one, but due to clouds didn't get a good view of it. We did see the glow as the clouds thinned out and it reached altitude, but that was it. I'd love to go down to the Cape and watch one live someday.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
Apr 1, 2024, 8:52 AM
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I live in the same area....looking for that last Delta Heavy to launch today.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
Apr 1, 2024, 9:07 AM
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We sell metrology systems to Blue Origin. I am making an excuse to go up there today. We can see the Delta Heavy sitting on the pad (37b) from the balcony at the top pf the building. It should be a spectacular spot to see it go.
My office is right on the Indian River in Melbourne so we see and feel most of the day time launches.
As cool as it is,
my wife and I cannot wait to retire and get back home to the UpState.
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Re: Two rocket launches tonight.
Apr 1, 2024, 11:01 AM
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I’m going on cruise the first week of June. Hoping to get down there and hopefully see one before we leave. Saw one as a kid when I was a Disney world. Will never ever forget it!!
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