And the sprint is on!
Okay, it started days ago, but we’re now less than seven days out from the eclipse and las than thirty-six hours from when I’m supposed to hit the road, so I guess it’s more accurate to say, “The panic is on!”
Which is not to say that a few minutes couldn’t be spared to watch tonight’s sunset launch out of Vandenberg of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Look closely and you can see a bright dot that’s Jupiter, just to the left of the palm tree tops. This exhaust plume was drifting in the high altitude, sunset skies as I was waiting to hear the sonic boom about nine minutes after launch, a couple minutes after the second stage had disappeared over the southern horizon. That sonic boom was very noticeable – not like it was going to shatter windows, but it was a pretty good “thump.”
You might be able to hear it just a few seconds before the end of this video, just before I said, “There it is!”
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 