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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer
I need to get to Cocoa Beach or thereabouts for one of the launches. Saw a YouTube vid shot from the beach and you could very clearly see the sideboosters land at sea. Incredible!
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That would be so cool! I've seen Minuteman III launches from Vandenburg AFB but I'm now kind of out of that biz so I'll have to watch launches from off-base rather than from the LCC. I think that they kind of protect the times of those and others with classified payloads (dunno on how they do NOTAMs and marine exclusions) but I recall that for nonsensitive things they do publish schedules pretty far out. It would be super cool to see a "heavy" head off over the pacific one of these days (IIRC they head south-west-ish over the water). I'm guessing that for the Cape it's similar. MM3s are tiny missiles, pea-shooters compared to the big stuff...
Little troca (trocito?) gifted to us from my parents looking over Los Alamos towards Santa Fe and the Sangre de Cristos. 2003 Ranger, fully loaded, was under 40k miles before I drove it back from Michigan...
