As a young child, I never really had the fascination of rockets nor being an astronaut! I'm not sure if that makes me normal or abnormal? But I never really thought about SPACE! I'm neither a Star Wars, Star Trek nor any other space show fan!!! Not that I didn't like the idea of space, but I wasn't someone who ever looked to the stars!
So, it amazes me that today I find myself enthralled with the launching of ROCKETS into space. In fact, I find it utterly amazing that we can launch a rocket and within 30 minutes have it in orbit around planet Earth! But the process for launching rockets takes much longer than the 30 minutes of glory when it's launched. In fact, some missions can take over 5 years to come to fruition.
For those of you traveling along the Space Coast, you should try to plan your trip to coincide with a rocket launch. Now, that is easier said than done, but if you get the chance to see a rocket lifting off the pad, you won't be disappointed (especially if you get to see a night launch...because it turns night into day)! You can follow the upcoming launch schedule on SpaceFlightNow. However, since every launch is a string of 1,000,000,000 miracles in consecutive order to be successful...sometimes the launches are delayed to ensure “Success”! So be patient...and plan for a few delays.
This week we had the opportunity to watch the SpaceX Thaicom6 launch from SLC-40 (Space Launch Complex 40). It was a concerted effort of Thaicom (the customer), Orbital Sciences (builder of the satellite) and SpaceX (rocket to take the payload to space). This mission launched the Thaicom 6 commercial telecommunications satellite, and Orbital Sciences GEOStar-2 spacecraft which provided a communications satellite to Southeast Asia and Africa.
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| Launch for Thaicom6 on 6 January 2014 |
BTW: If you can't make it to the Space Coast to see a launch in person, you can follow launches on the SpaceFlightNow website through Twitter and/or watching live video feeds.
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