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It's hard to believe its been 9 years since I took this video of the last night-time shuttle launch.  Video is piss poor but it's the only thing I've ever done with a Cape Canaveral flavor while serving time down here.  

 It is also hard to believe that we have no space mission that I am aware of.  As a kid we were always flying somewhere and some mission.  I think they are talking about Mars, but if there is the details seem to be fuzzy.

 Anyway, this is an old entry I posted and thought it might be nice to hark back to the time NASA was relevant.  Hark, hark.  (Hair lip dog.)






February 9,  2010 





I set my alarm for 4:00 am Monday morning to see if I could get a glimpse of the last night-time Shuttle launch. I stood in the parking lot and trained the camera toward Cape Canaveral, about 152 miles away. The launch was scheduled for 4:14 am. This is what I got. The fun begins after the minute 22 second mark. My little inadequate camera didn't get much clarity. I didn't hear it, but my ears are a bit plugged due to a cold I had last month. The actual sight of it through the naked eye was an intense orange rather than the whitish glow of the video. I kind of wish I would have taken still of it rather than the movie, I might have had better resolution.
I occasionally went out in the country when I lived in Galesburg to see the various "big" sky-related events in years past. Often alone, in the middle of no where, sometimes in the cold, and getting somewhat spooked. Anyway I think it is fun and although this recording is really really lousy, the copy-and-paste link below is closer and far better executed.
(in fact, nonexistent.  I removed it.)

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