06 February 2018

What I Did Today!



I went to Titusville and watched the launch of the VERY FIRST FOURTH electric car from Kennedy Space Center.

I also watched the return of the strap-on boosters.  Very cool!

Much slower than the Shuttle, much quieter but excellent growling crackle.

The boosters make a sonic boom that arrives just after they land.

I failed to take a single picture with my camera because I had it set up all wrong.

UPDATE:

Marv managed to get some vid shot, but his camera kept timing him out for some reason.



Don't mind the shakey cam...

Posted by Angus McThag at 22:11
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2 comments:

  1. SiGraybeard07 February, 2018 16:49

    Watched it from the backyard. Because liquid fuels burn cleaner than solids, there's no contrail and it didn't seem bigger than the Shuttles. It's quite a bit more powerful than they were.

    Very cool to hear the payload is on the way to the asteroid belt, and probably millions of years in solar orbit.

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  2. Siege07 February, 2018 17:19

    The whole engineering department at my office stopped to watch it live. Definitely a stepping stone to the solar system, though we've a ways to go yet.

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