I be thinkin' that's the shadow of the contral cast upon the cloud.
I be thinkin' that's the shadow of the contral cast upon the cloud.
Oh, my bad. That’s 15 minutes prior to the launch. So no contrail shadow there. That’s just a break in the cloud deck.
According to the after-action report going on right now, they were right at the cloud thickness threshold, i.e. 500’. A previous mission got scrubbed because of a 600’ deck.