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Falcon 9 from up close

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  • jon-nycJ Online
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    We happened to be at Kennedy Space Center and saw today’s launch.

    We hadn’t planned out visit around it, just lucky.

    Last launch I witnessed was the first space shuttle launch in 1981.

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    They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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      Nice

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        It was really serendipitous. We were arriving rather late to KSC, and the guy that took our parking money said ‘good timing - 3 minutes to launch’.

        We had no idea.

        They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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          So cool!

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            👍

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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.

                Link to video

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                @89th said in Falcon 9 from up close:

                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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