[oasis-members] Delta IV flight last night

[Robert Gounley]

Those were probably high clouds at 8:15.  According to Spaceflight Now 
(http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d317/)

    "This inaugural West Coast flight of the Evolved Expendable Launch
    Vehicle program began at 8:33 p.m. local time (11:33 p.m. EDT; 0333
    GMT). The liftoff was delayed 19 minutes due to strong winds blowing
    across the hilly launch base."


You saw more than I did though.  It was a busy night and I forgot. :-(

Go to http://www.moonglow.net/ccd/pictures/rocket/index.html to see the 
amazing light-show we could have enjoyed. (sigh!)  Anyone see this 
themselves, with or without photos?

BTW - Spaceflight Now (http://spaceflightnow.com) is an excellent 
resource for viewing scheduled Vandenberg launches.  With their 
minute-by-minute status reports you'll quickly learn about delays or scrubs.

jhamilton818 at charter.net wrote:
> I watched but didn't get any photos. I watched from 7:45 till 8:30 and saw
> little or nothing from Glendale. I saw the contrail very low on the horizon
> for about a minute starting around 8:15, then nothing. I went inside, came
> out at 8:55 and saw a thin vapor high to the south. I thought it was quite
> disappointing.
>
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> A Delta IV rocket took off from Vandenberg last night around 8:30 carrying a
> spy satellite.  Apparently the launch was quite spectacular.  Did anyone in
> the L.A. area get any photos?  If so, can you send one to the Odyssey editor
> at
> Odyssey_editor at oasis-nss.org.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Bartlett
> OASIS VP
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