[KevinDavis]

[al baby]

kennedy or Vandenberg?

[NonValueAdded]

"Launch ’em while you got ’em, boys."

[Reaganesque]

Let’s hope they have better luck than that Global Carbon Monitoring satellite that ended up in really, really low earth orbit. (It crashed in Antarctica.)

[silverleaf]

http://www.spaceref.com/video/?page=20

[NormsRevenge]

Cool!

A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket is prepared for the launch of the Kepler Telescope for NASA Kepler, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, March 6, 2009. NASA Kepler is a NASA Discover mission, a space-borne telescope designed to search a nearby region of the Milky Way for Earth-size planets orbiting in the habitable zone of stars like the sun. There are two launch windows, 10:49 to 10:52 p.m. and 11:13 to 11:16 p.m. EST. REUTERS/Carleton Bailie/United Launch Alliance/Handout

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The Kepler mission and its scope. NASA is preparing to launch the Kepler space telescope Friday to help answer a question that has boggled the minds of astronomers for centuries: is Earth the only habitable planet in the galaxy?(AFP/Graphic)

[MinuteGal]

I'm lucky I can see the spectacular lights from all the launches from my pad on the Gulf on Florida's west coast almost directly across from the Cape.

Leaving now to put on a jacket (chilly outside) to see what I can see. Hope the skies are clear. Ciao till later, alligators.

Leni

[G8 Diplomat]

Finally....a rocket launch from somewhere other than Gaza

[MinuteGal]

I stood at my Gulf coast lookout perch gazing at the Florida eastern sky. At the appointed time, two separate areas of intense white light like fans lit up the horizon. I watched for at least two minutes. Suddenly, both white lights disappeared abruptly.

I waited and waited, expecting to see the launch. Nothing happened. I waited a few more minutes, then gave up and turned to go back into my door. They must have scrubbed it, I thought.

As I turned away, the corner of my eye caught something glowing and golden. I turned and looked....and what to my wondering eyes did appear but an incandescent orb, day-glo amber-gold, round like a huge flaming basketball in the sky. I watched it in utter fascination.

The golden globe then appeared to be moving upward ever more slowly, but I realized that it had already started its arc straight eastward over the Atlantic ocean.

I spotted my neighbors saying goodby to company and yelled at them to look upward as I pointed and hollered. All six of them joined me till the orb disappeared in a cloud bank, only to reappear after 5 minutes, much smaller to our eyes as it continued eastward.....and then, down to the size of a pinhead to our eyes, it disappeared.

My neighbors were so happy I had flagged them to see the sight that the hostess brought over two slices of homemade fresh blueberry streusel kuchen to reward me.

All in all, a rewarding evening all the way around.

Leni

[SunkenCiv]

"Boeing: Integrated Defense Systems - Delta - Delta IV Launch Vehicles"