Saint Paul, MN
I'm reading but for some reason I can't see it from my house in Minnesota. I wonder why. 
Your lucky that you can see them, the night time ones are way cool and they drive those "we have never been to space" wackos bonkers.
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Quoted from Pinballlew:It is 6:17am pst so I believe that is 8:17am cst
If your in cst though you will have to view the livestream.
The following is the possible viewing area.
You got a link where I can watch it, I'm on central time.
Quoted from TimO:I was the only fool on the hill gazing toward Vandenberg this morning.
and you get to do it tomorrow too. Stay warm.
Quoted from TimO:The stupid webcast told me it was scrubbed ten minutes before Go. I totally missed it!
Same here. 
I just watched it, makes me proud to be an American. I hope I live to see the BFR take off. I'd go see that take off.
Quoted from Pinballlew:That BFRrocket is huge! Yeah I will get a lot closer for that one!
Closer 
I don't think so, not with the engines that monster is gonna have.
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Quoted from John_I:Working at Kennedy Space Center, we get to see them up CLOSE:
http://www.pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/who-is-in-on-tesla-model-3/page/24#post-4226841
Great pictures. It just blows my mine that some people say this is fake even though thousands and thousands of people saw it first hand.
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Quoted from Pinballlew:Successful launch
Nice. I heard a little bit on NPR yesterday about the probes, way cool.
5 months later
Quoted from Pinballlew:Been awhile since I have updated this thread but this should be a cool launch and if in California you will probably hear the sonic boom.
OCT 7 19:21 Falcon 9 SLC-4E Vehicle will launch Argentina's SAOCOM-1A satellite. A preliminary analysis by Rick Baldrige indicates the rocket's exhaust plume will be illuminated by the sun around the time of stage 2 ignition. An attempt will be made to have the jettisoned first stage make a powered soft landing at Vandenberg.
If there's video could you post a link?
Quoted from DCFAN:I am not sure what you mean???
Also, why the thumbs down for John_I posting a link above?
Oh yeah people have been posting videos saying how we have never been in space and the whole Space X is fake. Google the subject.
Sorry about that I must have hit the thumbs down by mistake.
Quoted from DCFAN:Thanks. It is amazing how ignorant some of the skeptics and conspiracy theorists can be.
If SpaceX was faking it, wouldn't the Russians, Chinese or NASA show that it was a ruse? The same thing with the man on the moon skeptics.
Also, Russia would have also either gone to the moon or faked it if it was that easy to get away with faking.
A couple of the funnier "facts" about rocket launches and the new Space X landings are that they are 3d projections and the souns come out of giant speakers that are hidden fro view. Now that's just plain stupid and other people believe them.
Quoted from MrArt2u:A couple of shots of Sunday's launch from my porch. Keep 'em coming, Space men!
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Those are beautiful. The ney sayers would say those are proof that it blew up hitting the firmerment. 
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Quoted from xsvtoys:Finally found an explanation of those loops. Good video here and lots of info in the comments.
Many people ask about those waves that shoot out like rings. Those are puffs of cold nitrogen gas from the Reaction Control System distributed over the rocket. They are used to maintain the orientation of the rocket and to position the rocket for re-entry. Now, for the people who like the nitty gritty, these are called Draco cold gas thrusters and they produce about 200 pounds of force each, with many thrusters clustered together in groups at the top and bottom of the stage. The thrusters are essentially entirely 3D printed by SpaceX and small enough to pick up and hold. Inside the Liquid Oxygen tank there are high pressure Nitrogen bottles to store the gas and metal tubes to split the gas up and divert some to each thruster. At the thruster is a valve and a nozzle.
Thanks for posting, that was great.
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This is so great to see. Could someone put tomorrows launch up here so we could see it.
That's a great story xsvtoys.
Damn, I went to the Space X site and I couldn't fine the launch, all I could find was the Dec 5th launch.
Quoted from John_I:This launch was by ULA, not SpaceX.
The Delta IV always has a lot of flames that look strange. They are expected according to their own press releases from previous flights.
I see, thanks. Got a link?
Quoted from xsvtoys:http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2014/20141126-ula-burning-questions.html
That link explains the flames pretty nicely. Basically they use some “sparklers” to ignite and burn off various hydrogen gas that has leaked out and is just sort of hanging around, this is done a few seconds before the engines light and the purpose is to prevent an uncontrolled excess amount of hydrogen from igniting all at once, which could explode and stuff.
If you go back on watch the video I think it’s the sparklers you see at the very bottom, it literally looks like a shower of sparks shooting out. Then, the flames start shooting up a few seconds later, that’s the excess hydrogen, as the rockets had not started.
Looks like they don't use a water shower too.
Quoted from xsvtoys:Well dang, I just learned another new thing. I remembered that when you saw the shuttles launching you would see all that water and steam, I always assumed that this was for cooling or flame suppression or something along those lines. Turns out it has nothing to do with that at all, it’s for noise suppression as the huge amount of noise that is generated during the launch causes various damage to the launch platform and the vehicle.
https://interestingengineering.com/nasa-sound-suppression-system-prevents-rocket-from-exploding
Yeah I learned about that a long time ago. The explosion of the 2 solid boosters when they lit on the shuttle was a big problem, they had to come up with something. The solid boosters were like 2 bombs going off
Quoted from DCFAN:Falcon 9 delayed to provide time to study sensor readings.
Yeah I saw that.
What timing, this morning around 2am a meteor probably the size of a dishwasher lit up the sky here in the MPLS/SP area and actually made a big BOOM sound. I was awake at that time but didn't see it but I sure heard it. Didn't look outside cuz I knew the sound always comes after the light like lightning. Google Meteor MPLS/SP and see if anything comes up. Some people caught it on video.
Quoted from Pinballlew:I bet so. I was watching some show on meteorite hunters. I didn’t realize they are pretty valuable.
Oh yeah they are valuable. The one here was most likely a stony because it didn't reach the ground. The boom wasn't from it blowing up it was from passing the sound barrier and that's also how you can tell it was a bigger one. As a kid I saw one that was changing colors as it was coming in and it made a crack sound like a far away fire cracker. The one this morning sounded like a storm door when the wind takes it and it slammed against the house. Just one quick BOOM but no rumble after like lightning.
Quoted from DCFAN:I believe you accidentally gave him a thumbs down.
Oups your right, fixed it. 
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Quoted from xsvtoys:Looks like no. Falcon 9 launch is delayed, new launch date is unknown for now.
Nuts.
Quoted from Pinballlew:JAN 19th 11:05am
Delta IV
Heavy SLC-6 Vehicle will launch the NROL-71 payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office
United Launch Alliance has targeted Saturday for the launch of a Delta IV Heavy from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The rocket was first set to launch in December but issues during more than one attempt forced ULA to postpone the launch indefinitely.
The Jan. 19 date was announced Tuesday.
When the rocket takes off it will deliver a satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office into orbit.
Saturday’s launch is set for 11:05 a.m. from SLC-6.
Thanks. You got a link to the site?
Quoted from xsvtoys:Go straight to the source here. They usually go live with a pregame show about an hour before launch. There will also be links to the twitter and YouTube live feeds. I’ll probably miss this one as I have to work indoors Saturday. Although, I’m not sure what a daytime launch will look like in the sky from a few hundred miles away.
https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/delta-iv-nrol-71
Thanks for the link.
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Someone posted the launch on Facebook viewed from across the water, the audio was killer. Wish I knew how to repost it here.
1 week later
Another successful launch and recovery, I LOVE it. They missed the center of the bullseye dead center on landing. LOL
3 weeks later
Quoted from Pinballlew:UPDATE (3:30 p.m.) – For the first time, Vandenberg Air Force Base has simultaneously launched two Ground-Based Interceptor missiles during a weapons test.
The two missiles could be seen in the sky over the Central Coast just after 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The job of the two missiles was to destroy a “threat-representative” Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launched from the Marshall Islands more than 4,000 miles away.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency says the test was a success. One of the interceptors struck and destroyed the ICBM, while the second interceptor analyzed the debris and selected the next “most lethal object” and destroyed it.
“This was the first GBI salvo intercept of a complex, threat-representative ICBM target, and it was a critical milestone,” said MDA Director Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel A. Greaves. “The system worked exactly as it was designed to do, and the results of this test provide evidence of the practicable use of the salvo doctrine within missile defense. The Ground-based Midcourse Defense system is vitally important to the defense of our homeland, and this test demonstrates that we have a capable, credible deterrent against a very real threat.”
This is nice to know because God help us if it's ever needed.
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Space x Heavy is a TOTAL success. Payload in high orbit and ALL 3 rockets returned safely. The first time all 3 boosters have returned. Man I get teary eyed watching this. LOL
2 months later
Quoted from mcluvin:First Falcon Heavy night launch is a little over a week away. Gonna try to get up close for that one.
Lucky. You gonna try to shoot video?
Quoted from mcluvin:I'm usually pretty terrible at that, but I'll probably try. I tried to see the first Falcon Heavy launch up close and it kept getting delayed. Drove back home and got to a clearing just in time to see it go up. They are cool.
Love to see AND hear the takeoff and landing from where you are.
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Quoted from chad:You are correct. 11: 30 pm est
edt and cdt. 
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Quoted from OLDPINGUY:Anyone here working on the Blue Moon Project?
What's that?
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Quoted from Atari_Daze:Next launch tomorrow (12/5/19) taking some beer making ingredients. Pushing the bounds of experimentation!
December 5 for launch of its nineteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-19) at 12:29 p.m. EST, or 17:29 UTC
So that's 11:29 cst
Quoted from Atari_Daze:Looks like another successful launch and recovery!
What do the flat earthers says when these are broadcast live and one can see the curvature of the earth?
Oh they just say it's a fish eye lens effect. Morons.
Quoted from Pinballlew:Elon Musk believes we most likely live in a artificial reality and has stated that he thinks the odds we live in base reality is less then 1 in a billion. separate issue from the flat earthers beliefs. I just think it’s funny since you know he heads up Space X.
Really, I never knew that about him.
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Quoted from John_I:I spotted the returned stage 1 vehicle from the crew launch across the inlet while eating lunch in Port Canaveral yesterday.
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Isn't it amazing something that big can land itself
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