We did!! I’m sorting out the photos now.

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After the launch we were able to outrun the throngs of hot babes in Titusville (because their Rascal scooters have a top speed of about 2 mph) and we made it back to our hotel in Kingsland with our virtues and marriages intact.

The first photo is approx. 20 minutes before the launch and clearly shows the VAB under a gorgeous sky. The remaining photos are the launch of the F9. The earth-shattering kaboom and the shock wave washed over us approx. 30 to 45 seconds after ignition.

I believe there's supposed to be a Delta launch this Thursday.

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I am about as interested in OVERTIME ever as a chimp is in the Hope Diamond.
I'm a salaried exempt employee. Gets me zero extra $$.
If I get stuck working OT, it's due to someone else messing up.
If it drags me in on a weekend EVER, somebody is getting reamed.

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ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, and HAVOC !

Thanks for the on-the-scene reporting and photos Jeff! Glad it was worth the effort to make the trip down. Too bad there are no hot babe photos...maybe on your next trip. As someone else commented, Titusville is not much of a 'beach' town, at least not that I've seen and I've been down there many, many times but sadly none in over 10 years now.

There is a hotel in Titusville right on the water's edge that we have stayed in several times, and we always got an upper level room around on the back. One can look right out the windows of the room DIRECTLY across the waterway to KSC and see the VAB, Pads 39A and B. A wonderful sight day OR night.

Earl

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It was fun and well-worth the trip down! The only other launch I'd ever witnessed was in the early 1980's. My sub was moored at the secured part of Port Canaveral after exercises in the Autec range. It was a night launch of a little, sub-orbital sounding rocket. I don't remember any other details than that--except the viewing was great from the close proximity we were at.

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Never trust an atom. They make up everything.

4 out of 3 people struggle with math.

Chemically, alcohol IS a solution.

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