Falcon 9 from up close
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Very cool. I always wanted to see a shuttle launch or eventually a launch down there on the space coast. I was able to view a few launches (from 60+ miles away) from the Wallops Island facility, but as you can imagine they were quite distant (and no sound). Sadly, I missed the explosion in 2014... would've lit up the horizon but I was busy making dinner or something at the time.
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Very cool. I always wanted to see a shuttle launch or eventually a launch down there on the space coast. I was able to view a few launches (from 60+ miles away) from the Wallops Island facility, but as you can imagine they were quite distant (and no sound). Sadly, I missed the explosion in 2014... would've lit up the horizon but I was busy making dinner or something at the time.
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Sadly, I missed the explosion in 2014.
I watched it from my driveway in Herndon.
I had seen Wallops launches from there before. The rocket looked about the size of a fingernail at arms length, and no sound.
I watched the liftoff on my iPad, then looked up expecting to see the rocket in a few seconds. I never saw a thing, except on the iPad. It didn't get high enough.
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