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Did you try to watch from the KSC launch complex or did you go off site? They're saying we should be able to see both the launch and the landing from the viewing area that they bus you to.
No telephoto, so the best we can do is take some 'far away and zoom in' types of shots. We'll see. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2017/12/12/spacex-…
I would skip the KSC deal since they are going to bus you to the Saturn V complex which has a blocked view of pad 40 and the landing complex. My personal favorite spot to watch from when the base is mostly closed down (which always happens on a return to land flight) is the hill at South Gate off 401 or Exploration Tower a bit further south of the power. They both give you an elevated view that gives you full viability of the launch and landing pads. The hill is free, the Tower charges a couple bucks a head.
https://www.space.com/39073-spacex-rocket-launch-for-nasa-delayed-dec-1…
Unfortunately I've got to fly to Houston for business tomorrow morning then to NYC for a wedding this weekend. Won't be back until Monday. Fingers and toes crossed the 15th gets scrubbed too so I can be around for a late December flight.
I'm disappointed but I'd rather see a successful launch than them push one through and have a problem.
Hoping the falcon heavy inaugural launch actually happens in January as I'll be in fl till then. That'd be a sight.
The entire thing is such a pain in the ass you'll probably only see half a dozen Heavies ever fly. It's just too much of a total redesign and is mostly built by hand, the center core had to be seriously beefed up and made differently from any other Falcon 9.
There's even trouble before the process of building and final design get started. After doing transport studies they now realize it can't be built in the main Hawthorne plant. A new production facility will have to be built next to the water so stages can be shipped by barge, probably in San Pedro where they already have dock space for incoming boosters. That's a long winded way of saying this thing will not be on a launch pad in 2022 waiting to be sent to Mars. This is probably going to be a decade + of testing and fine tuning.
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Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-har…
WASHINGTON — In the $600 billion annual Defense Department budgets, the $22 million spent on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was almost impossible to find.
Which was how the Pentagon wanted it.
For years, the program investigated reports of unidentified flying objects, according to Defense Department officials, interviews with program participants and records obtained by The New York Times. It was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring, deep within the building’s maze.
The Defense Department has never before acknowledged the existence of the program, which it says it shut down in 2012. But its backers say that, while the Pentagon ended funding for the effort at that time, the program remains in existence. For the past five years, they say, officials with the program have continued to investigate episodes brought to them by service members, while also carrying out their other Defense Department duties.............
Yea unfortunately I was playing in the snow Friday instead of in the sun watching this thing takeoff/land. Shit happens. Hoping that the next Falcon 9 goes in early January though I don't know how realistic that is from what I've read. I'm not giving up on seeing one of these things though.
Posted on Twitter - glad to see some progress
Now THAT'S an impressive rear end
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