Posted on 05/08/2021 7:23:50 AM PDT by outofsalt
"A mission to explore energy transport in space using a NASA suborbital sounding rocket launching May 8, 2021, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia may provide a brief light show for residents of the eastern United States and Bermuda." "The mission is scheduled for no earlier than 8:02 p.m. EDT with a 40-minute launch window, Saturday, May 8."
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Weather will be good here in Virginia so you can watch NASA give our atmosphere a Barium enema!
Enema in the sky ?
The times are in alignment.
What I’d like to know - what if the NASA launch going up hits the Chinese rocket coming down?
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They say it's safe. You can bet your ass on it!
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"That's not my department," says Werner von Braun.
Here, just east of Phoenix, I am able to see launches from Vandenberg, 500 miles away on the coast. The launch has to be prior to sunrise and after sunset to be seen. It can be quite a show. It takes about 60 seconds before it becomes visible on the horizon.
Wallop’s Island rarely launches really big rockets. Last year they launched The Antares measures about 131 feet tall.
I used to live near Cape Canaveral and night launches are the best as far as viewing goes.
There was some sort of test like this over Hawaii around 1969-71 that formed a circle and a triangle in the night sky.
In the early ‘70s my husband flew on the ARIA aircraft that covered launches from Wallops.
40 years ago, https://www.ariamemorial.com/
Yes, that tragedy happened after they moved the ARIA from Patrick AFB FL to Wright-Patterson AFB OH.
My husband was a mission-coordinator 1971-75. In late ‘75 they ended the Apollo program and there was a planned 5 year gap before the space shuttle program began.
His usual 4 year tour was up, so instead of moving with the ARIA they sent my husband to the Pentagon for 4 years.
My husband and sons are still “space nerds” as my daughter-in-law puts it.
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