I don't mean to sidetrack this OP, but..... You asked for it, lmao.... Not this one, they decided not to reclaim it, rather recovered it from the Ocean, never to be reused again. Due to several prior flights using that Stage 1 rocket, Space X determined to not do a landing/recovery of the stage I rocket.... The launch from Vandenberg was spectacular, (which is almost out our backyard, above Tehachapi Mt.) - shortly after sunset, clearly seen well in the Mojave, all the way to Tucson east, to San Diego south. One video (2), I've posted was taken from a moving car on the LA freeway, resulting in a horrid car crash, as peeps peered into the sky, not paying attention to cars; heavy traffic in front of 'em....(the nerve of the YouTube video person who posted the crash): "Maybe Elon should choose a better time to launch". How about keeping one's eyes on the road, or pulling off the freeways to star gaze; as any time of day or night is going to result in idiots driving while looking into the sky..... Here's a great time lapse video of the 12/22/017 launch. So Cal's 911/LAPD/LASD/FAA switchboards lit up, with reports of UFO sightings. Same thing happened when the B2 made it's maiden flight over Los Angeles, 10's of thousands of callers.... Video # (2) Ref: http://spacenews.com/spacex-to-skip-first-stage-landing-for-upcoming-iridium-launch/ Those recoveries all occur at or near KSC, on land or on a barge in the Atlantic near KSC... Quit a phenomenal sight to see, both launches and recovery's.... blows my mind to see a recovery.... blows my mind even more, that Musk spent less than 700 Million $$ to do what NASA stated would take 3.6 Billion to do themselves..... When Musk first broke into the Space business, I thought he was missing a few marbles for his brave new approach to old failed ideas, of which he has proven otherwise to be successful stories. History is re-written daily... !
this Pic was taken from Victorville, 40 mile S.E. from EAFB in t/Mojave...approximately 150 miles from VAFB... and pics from Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm and Sea World/San Diego, all approx 175-280 miles away. Tucson to VAFB, = 650 miles. Distance by air from t/Mojave to VAFB = approximately 100 miles... a incredible great visual from here. from Disneyland: Knotts Berry Farm, also Orange County- It's great to see Space X utilizing VAFB. The 70's were the Golden era for VAFB Rocket Launches, all visible here. from Sea World/San Diego: Some may not know this: (I'm sounding like Trump eh?) VAFB was re-configured with a new launch pad for Space Shuttle Orbital Flights. After OV-099 Challenger's disaster, all VAFB STS OV flights were cancelled. Billions of $$$ were spent to create/build the launch pad, and OLF facilities for shuttle flights. VAFB's OV launch complex was several Billion $$$ in lost costs. (OV's, i.e. Orbital Vehicles), (STS- Space Transportation Systems, for Manned Space Flight)... https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-space-shuttle-s-military-launch-complex-in-californ-1710303170 great article. I should of created a new post for this, ok, ok, back to the Not For Long lg. and oh PS- since so many peeps called in UFO sightings, they didn't publish or broadcast this epic stunning Giant Flying Lippizanner in the sky following the Space X Falcon 9....
This is what they do! Is it worse being a Jets fan or a Ravens fan? Jets crush you and Ravens stab you.
I have an announcement to make. I no longer will be a rabid Baltimore fan. The O's fade and the Ravens stab us. I am now joining the YANKEES fans', as my son had always wanted me to be.
...and oh, btw, though I know that last night's Rose Bowl was not an NFL game but I think I speak for a lot of people when I send out a big "FU" to Baker Mayfield.
Best Rose Bowl I've ever seen! A well-deserved fu2 Mayfield... I'm looking forward to seeing an all SEC CHAMPIONSHIP game...!!! Excuse me but I just have to say this roll tide roll.....lol-!
...always thought Woodson would make a good coach....the word is that Gruden is also wanting to bring in Rich Gannon and the Jets' OC and the Bengals' DC.
Yep, that horse is real. Odd thing, the pics I took (of the horse flying thru the night sky, following that rocket); had the horse breathing fire out of its nostrils, with an Archangel wielding one Big-Mo-Fo Sword with His eyes also-afire.....sumabitch, must of been some foul up in the exposure....
^^^^ it's been about 20 yrs for us, saw them in back to back yrs in the 90's; one year at the local Alfalfa Fair complex, the next at the GW Inglewood Forum. What I'd give to see the Spanish Riding School Shows in Vienna. Just to think if not for General Patton, we'd not have this breed of one of a kind Stallions and Mares..... Unfkng believable horses, and not one in the Rose Bowl neither, wtf- Gott'a love 'em....
