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NASA Rocket Launch VIDEO

Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
edited October 2016 in General Discussion
For anyone interested, NASA is launching an Antares rocket tonight to resupply the International Space Station. It's being launched from Wallops Island, Va., not far from where I live in Virginia Beach. It's supposed to be a spectacular sky show and visible from most cities in the east. Here's a schedule of sightings from launch + seconds after launch for best visibility. Scheduled launch time is 7:40 PM Eastern Time.

http://www.universetoday.com/131368/antares-return-to-flight-set-for-magnificent-monday-night-launch-watch-live/

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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,446 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hoping for a successful launch.
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to live in the Cocoa Beach area. Night launches are fantastic. The roar of the engines and the light from the flames illuminates the country for many miles. [:D]
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Spider7115,

    Man, I am envious! I have always wished to be able to see a launch from anywhere near a pad.

    Is it possible to take any pictures so we can share with you vicariously?

    Enjoy the event!

    Best.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    To be totally accurate, NASA is only the payload customer; they're buying a ride to orbit from Orbital Sciences Corp, who developed the rocket and own the rocket and launch pad. It's no different from the way we ship stuff by UPS - we don't own the truck.

    These days, NASA has NO launchable rockets. At all. They've been designing one for more than a decade now, and it isn't supposed to fly for another three or four years.

    If you don't live near Virginia, you can watch this via NASA TV or NASA webcast here: http://www.nasa.gov/
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,381 ******
    edited November -1
    There is little on this earth that is more useless than NASA, ever since their mission became all about finding ET.[xx(]
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nononsense -- do whatever it takes to get to a launch. It is perhaps the most awesome sight of your life. There's just no describing how big those things are, or how powerful.

    I've been on hand for about a hundred of them, sometimes as close as 6,000 feet from the pad. When you're that close, you can feel your liver moving inside you from the sound. Really.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,510 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    Nononsense -- do whatever it takes to get to a launch. It is perhaps the most awesome sight of your life. There's just no describing how big those things are, or how powerful.

    I've been on hand for about a hundred of them, sometimes as close as 6,000 feet from the pad. When you're that close, you can feel your liver moving inside you from the sound. Really.


    Saw one and you hit it right on the head Rocky. Took my son Christopher to see the space shuttle launch. We were also on the coast when another landed and man that was cool. I was going to look for it tonight, but we have too many trees to see it. I don't feel like taking the 30 minute ride to the beach. Oakie

    PS, I didn't know they launched rockets from anywhere but Florida. I never knew they launched anything from Virginia. Learn something every day.[:I]
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by nononsense
    Spider7115,

    Man, I am envious! I have always wished to be able to see a launch from anywhere near a pad.

    Is it possible to take any pictures so we can share with you vicariously?

    Enjoy the event!

    Best.



    We will try to get pics or video.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oakie, Wallops Island is a NASA research facility. They've launched a lot of sounding rockets there for atmospheric studies (remember weird colored clouds very high at times?) and a lot of balloon-borne experiments.

    A few years back, Orbital Sciences - now Orbital ATK - leased space for rocket processing buildings and a launch pad for these medium-class boosters. So it's on NASA land, but leased pad facilities. For now, these larger rockets are used only to resupply the Space Station. But there are other payloads and orbits that could use Antares rockets from Wallops.

    BTW, there are now ten - yes 10 - spaceports in the US licensed by the FAA to perform space launches. Most of them are owned/run by private businesses, not goobermint, too.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Countdown running smoothly for tonight's launch. Tune in now for the 7:40 pm Eastern liftoff.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That went well. Very impressive.
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Obviously, it was dark out but the fireball over the ocean was still awesome!

    The video is here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yze92WcLIc
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 59,845 ******
    edited November -1
    [8D][8D][8D]
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