September 25th

cannabineer

cannabineer

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2:37 pm: Launch time just got bumped from 2:53 local to 3:24:30 local

2:48 pm: Flight event timer
T -0:07 Commence primary ignition
+0:00 Vehicle release and liftoff; all three RS-68s at full thrust
+0:44 Center stage throttles back to 55%
+1:31 Max Q; coincident with transition to supersonic flight
+4:00 Booster engine throttle-back to minimum
+4:02 BECO: booster engine cutoff
+4:04 Booster stages separate, core stage throttle-up to 102%
+5:28 MECO: main engine cutoff
+5:30 Staging
After that I doubt I will have eyes on it.

3:13 pm: L minus 12 minutes

3:17 pm: L minus 9 minutes. A bit of launch time creep apparently

3:20 pm: Flight controller poll: all go

3:23 pm: You will next hear from me either with a scrub announcement (one Heavy scrubbed at -0:03)
or an observer’s summary.

3:31 pm: Core engine cutoff, stage separation, Centaur ignition perfect.

At appx. T+ 1:10, I saw a contrail forming a bit left (more southerly azimuth) of expected visual acquisition. At ~+1:40, the contrail disappeared behind a cloud, and I saw nothing emerge above it. The sun is nearby in an otherwise clear sky, and I could see neither the vehicle nor the quite faint hydroxygen flame from the engines.

Here is a so-so pic of the rapidly-dissipating contrail from my phone cranked to 10x. At the time, the stack was probably near the upper right corner.

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That was the last Delta 4 Heavy from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying the NROL-91 payload.
 
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cannabineer

cannabineer

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cannabineer said:
2:37 pm: Launch time just got bumped from 2:53 local to 3:24:30 local

2:48 pm: Flight event timer
T -0:07 Commence primary ignition
+0:00 Vehicle release and liftoff; all three RS-68s at full thrust
+0:44 Center stage throttles back to 55%
+1:31 Max Q; coincident with transition to supersonic flight
+4:00 Booster engine throttle-back to minimum
+4:02 BECO: booster engine cutoff
+4:04 Booster stages separate, core stage throttle-up to 102%
+5:28 MECO: main engine cutoff
+5:30 Staging
After that I doubt I will have eyes on it.

3:13 pm: L minus 12 minutes

3:17 pm: L minus 9 minutes. A bit of launch time creep apparently

3:20 pm: Flight controller poll: all go

3:23 pm: You will next hear from me either with a scrub announcement (one Heavy scrubbed at -0:03)
or an observer’s summary.

3:31 pm: Core engine cutoff, stage separation, Centaur ignition perfect.

At appx. T+ 1:10, I saw a contrail forming a bit left (more southerly azimuth) of expected visual acquisition. At ~+1:40, the contrail disappeared behind a cloud, and I saw nothing emerge above it. The sun is nearby in an otherwise clear sky, and I could see neither the vehicle nor the quite faint hydroxygen flame from the engines.

Here is a so-so pic of the rapidly-dissipating contrail from my phone cranked to 10x. At the time, the stack was probably near the upper right corner.

View attachment 5202788

That was the last Delta 4 Heavy from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying the NROL-91 payload.
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uh, the other right. Upper left.
Max Q/supersonic transition left no visual cue.
 
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CunningCanuk said:
Maybe it was this? lol

Jan. 6 ‘Truth’ Rally at Capitol Fails Spectacularly
Instead of big crowds, the “Truth Rally” attracted around the same number of counter-protesters as attendees.

Read in The Daily Beast: https://apple.news/AqB3VlT2JRbaE5fVBuWUZMA
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somehow that isn’t at the level of “remember where I was when it happened”.

I am just young (!) enough not to have been aware of the missile crisis or Kennedy’s assassination.

My two qualifying experiences were the moon landing and, not quite 15 years later, the Challenger disaster.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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CunningCanuk said:
Maybe it was this? lol

Jan. 6 ‘Truth’ Rally at Capitol Fails Spectacularly
Instead of big crowds, the “Truth Rally” attracted around the same number of counter-protesters as attendees.

Read in The Daily Beast: https://apple.news/AqB3VlT2JRbaE5fVBuWUZMA
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magats are broke, they can't afford to travel.
they aren't the most fiscally responsible people to begin with, most of them aren't wealthy, a lot of them can't afford to travel when times are good, they sure as fuck can't afford to travel when they've been giving trump every spare penny they have. they've been donating to trump, to the magats he endorses, they travel to one of his rallies, buy a new hat or tshirt, or a new flag for their yard or for the truck they'll still be paying for when they die...and then they have NOTHING...no savings, no money for emergencies, and certainly no money to travel to DC
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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cannabineer said:
somehow that isn’t at the level of “remember where I was when it happened”.

I am just young (!) enough not to have been aware of the missile crisis or Kennedy’s assassination.

My two qualifying experiences were the moon landing and, not quite 15 years later, the Challenger disaster.
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my bedroom for 9-11 and challenger both...i'm just young enough to have missed the moon landing and jfk being killed by a couple of years..
i was taking a shit when i heard trump had been elected president...i remember thinking " at least i'm in an appropriate place for this shit news."
 
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Roger A. Shrubber said:
my bedroom for 9-11 and challenger both...i'm just young enough to have missed the moon landing and jfk being killed by a couple of years..
i was taking a shit when i heard trump had been elected president...i remember thinking " at least i'm in an appropriate place for this shit news."
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yeah, 9/11 qualifies. I was quite sick in bed. A not-favorite neighbor was running the truck radio, and my first thought was “bullshit”.
 
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carlsbarn

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MickFoster said:
I remember having nuclear bomb drills in school during the Cuban missile crisis.
I was in 8th grade class when JFK was assassinated.
I remember the moon landing like it was yesterday.........I was at home watching it on tv.
I was at work on 9/11.
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I was on my back deck smoking a joint when I wished Mick Foster happy birthday. #NEVERFORGET


happy birthday
 
CunningCanuk

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cannabineer said:
somehow that isn’t at the level of “remember where I was when it happened”.

I am just young (!) enough not to have been aware of the missile crisis or Kennedy’s assassination.

My two qualifying experiences were the moon landing and, not quite 15 years later, the Challenger disaster.
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I was 18 months old on November 22, 1963 but I remember the moon landing like it happened yesterday.
 
cannabineer

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CunningCanuk said:
I was 18 months old on November 22, 1963 but I remember the moon landing like it happened yesterday.
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I was precisely 2 1/2 that day.

That summer I have a memory of being at the beach. Mama had me on her hip one fine late twilight and there was a burst of red sparks out to sea. I pointed and asked, and remember her saying the German word for crisis.

Much later I learned about missiles in Cuba.

There were two launches out of nearby Wallops Island 1963 August 02.
 
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cannabineer said:
I was precisely 2 1/2 that day.

That summer I have a memory of being at the beach. Mama had me on her hip one fine late twilight and there was a burst of red sparks out to sea. I pointed and asked, and remember her saying the German word for crisis.

Much later I learned about missiles in Cuba.

There were two launches out of nearby Wallops Island 1963 August 02.
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I remember my mother cooking supper, she had the TV turned in a doorway to watch the news of what was happening. I was 3, I did not know what was going on but I knew that there was a big loss everyone was feeling. Do not remember more than a half a dozen events before becoming a teenager. The moon landing, everyone in school was watching it.
 
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