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Justin Page    17-Jan-2009  22:50
The little chuckle I have about half way through is because it looked like the three foot tall bird standing next to me kept tilting his head  looking back and forth at me and the rocket.
Justin Page    17-Jan-2009  22:45
So this rocket was scheduled to take off at 7:33 so I went out to the beach to get a good look at it. 7:33 came and went and there was no launch. I went back to the car and the radio said it had been rescheduled to 8:13 for whatever reason. I went back to the beach and 8:13 came and went with no launch so I went back to the car and the radio said the launch had been rescheduled to an undetermined time. I went home and looked on NASA's website where they had absoltely no information on it. About 9:00 I found a website with live updates on the launch where I learned it was sceduled for a 9:13 lift off, so I got in my car and hauled ass towards the beach which was 15 minutes away. I was listening on the radio about three miles from the beach when they said T minus 90 seconds and I was pissed because I there was no way I was going to be able to make it. Then at T minus 70 seconds they cancelled the launch again so I turned around and went back home. When I got home and checked the website they had the launch set for 9:47, it was 9:32 so I ran back out to the car and headed towards the beach. I was crossing the causeway when they said T minus 90 seconds  on the radio, I knew I wouldn't make it to the beach so I stopped  on the causeway.  I had no place to put the camera to keep it steady so I just held it. It was cool to see in person but the video just looks like an orange blob in the night sky. I was watching the launch at about the same straight line distance of Springfield to Worcester. At the end of the video you can see who was there watching it with me, once the launch was over he flew away.


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