Monday, April 1, 2024

Launch of Starlink 7-18


Pretty cool to just watch the launch of Starlink Group 7-18 from Vandenberg Space Force Base.  We are north quite aways, about 60 miles or so, in Cayucos and it was headed away from us.  It was still a thrill.  It took about 5 minutes for the rumbling sound of the launch to reach us.  



The last launch I watched in person was Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969.  (We got married July 16, 1988.) 

Violet Alpha Sillers Rodgers, 130th Birthday

My maternal grandmother, Violet Alpha Sillers (I called her Nana) was born 130 years ago today, February 23, 1895, in River John, Nova Scoti...