Falcon 9

[Chaz]

I watched it leave town ..

If you know when and where to look, you cant miss the ISS do a flyover ..

http://wsn.spaceflight.esa.int/iss/index_portal.php

[CUDA]

https://www.astroviewer.net/iss/en/

[Headless Hula]

As a guy that's never witnessed any type of space launch in person, and watched Christa McAuliffe perish, along with the rest of the crew, on the 28th of January while watching it on television in my middle school classroom, I have been eagerly anticipating watching one of these events.


I had the opportunity to visit Kennedy in 2012. I remember taking my kids through the area where all the mission patches are displayed, and noting that the carpet was completely worn away beneath the frame holding the burnt patch from mission STS 51 L.



It still gives me chills thinking about it.

[Chaz]

Growing up as a kid, we had Homestead Air Force base. Nike and Hawk missile sites in the tomato fields and the Everglades National Park. Quite a flurry over patch head calling Nukes , palm trees he planted in Cuba.
Not to go to waste ... AeroJet , worked on building the worlds largest solid rocket about 20 miles south of our little town ..

[Li'l Toy]

And if they had let AeroJet build the solid boosters for the shuttle--they could build them in one piece and barge them Homestead to Cape Canaveral-never would have had two-part boosters the failed o-ring that took down the shuttle. But noooo, they needed three bidders.

[CUDA]

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-astron...tle-soyuz.html