We found ourselves back in Titusville on our way north with PERFECT timing for a rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center! We had been tracking the launch schedule for a while and weather pushed a launch right into a relaxed transit day from Vero Beach for us! But first, we enjoyed our favorite Titusville activities...skateboarding and drinking fantastic beer! The kids spent a few hours at the skate park before we hit Playalinda Brewery for their craft root beer and ever-changing beer selection. We got positively soaked on the way back to our mooring, but it was worth it!
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| The marina skate park and Playalinda Brewery make for a happy crew! |
This morning was an early one! I was up at 0515 to get the coffee going, but the astronauts and launch teams had already been up for hours. At 0549 the eastern sky lit up with the glow of the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket as it carried four crew members to the International Space Station. It was beautiful! We saw a launch back in January, but somehow this was different. You could hear people cheering all around us, you could clearly see the 1st and 2nd stages after separation, you could see the rocket returning to Earth, and you knew that instead of satellites, you had just watch four fellow humans get launched into space. What a time to be alive!
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| First light from the launch. |
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| Folks cheered as the rocket broke above the clouds. |
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| Kind of love the contrail! |
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| Separation of the 1st and 2nd stage is clear. |
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The rocket returning to "Of Course I Still Love You" as the sun starts to rise.
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As the sun rose we enjoyed seeing photos of the launch from friends from the Bahamas to Charleston...so cool to see the different perspectives. This may not be he fastest, least stressful way to make a transit of the coast, but I could watch that again and again.
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