spaceflight

Took a trip down recently to Starbase in Boca Chica Texas to check out the Starship 6 launch. It was completely awesome, with more 'crackle' than the space shuttle launch I saw in 2011. Starbase is cool in the fact that it's wide open. I could have probably walked right up to the rocket...

Friday night, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a group of Iridium satellites from Vandenberg AFB and put on an awesome twilight show across the southwest US. There was about a day's advance notice from Brian Webb's Launch Alert Newsletter. I drove up to the top of Mount Elden, 2400' above...