Falcon Heavy Successful!

Today was THE DAY.

The Space Coast (our nickname)

has been all abuzz about the latest

SpaceX launch scheduled for today.

It was supposed to go at 1:30.

I decided to view it from the beach.

A beautiful day to be there!

I found a secluded spot in the sand,

laid out my bed sheet on a little ridge

and listened to a new book while

watching the people and birds.

About 12:45 I started walking north.

You can see the launch pad in the distance

when you are headed that way.

(the above picture is looking south...)

At 1:00 I heard they had scrubbed the 

1:05 and were now shooting for the 3:05

launch window.

Having already spent quite some time

in the intense Florida beach sun,

I wandered back to my spot,

collected my blanket and shoes,

walked back to my car and deposited

more quarters

and then walked across the street to 

Wendy's for a salad and soda.

And again with the delay.

They said they were now going to 3:45.

But all the space nerds said it was

going to likely be tomorrow.

So I headed back to my little

spot on the beach and enjoyed 

a little more of the sun.

(Since I'd already paid for my parking spot)

Spread my sheet and continued listening

to my book, while checking in with the

Space-X facebook page now and again

for updates.

Looking north there were lots of people

enjoying the beautiful day and waiting

to hear if the launch was going to go.

However, I decided I'd had enough sun.

So about 3:30 I headed home.

Giving me enough time to GET home

and watch it from my yard on the

off chance it decided to go.

And, of course, it did!

I didn't get any pictures of the actual shot.

To be honest, I was too busy watching

with my eyes instead of my camera.

Fingers crossed.

Everyone (including Elon Musk) was worried

whether this thing would actually fly.

But fly it DID!

And then they topped it off by

landing TWO rocket boosters,

side-by-side back on the ground!

So now the space nerds and newsmen

are all busy making horrible puns

about the red roadster heading into space.

Along the lines of

"Did you SEE that Car-go???"

Insert maniacal laughter.

We here on the Space Coast take

our space flights (and stupid jokes

about it) VERY seriously.

WAY TO GO SPACE-X!