Author: leh

SpaceX Success!

My old photography sidekick, Bill W., captured this image of tonight’s SpaceX launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and deployment of the Argentine SAMOCOM 1A satellite. Many in California could view the event as the rocket and payload were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California (bringing back special memories, as I worked there on assignment for a few months in 1965-66 and witnessed many AFWTR — Air Force Western Test Range — night-time rocket test launches).

Follow this link to see what an NBC meterologist saw in LA.

The video below from SpaceX documents more fully the event, including the return landing of the 15-story-tall first stage of the Falcon rocket back at Vandenberg. First ever land-based landing for SpaceX. This video, IMHO, is well worth watching in its ~37-minute entirety.

rDay Twelve-Hundred-Ninety

The day started off normally enough, with a walk downtown to the workspace …

Heading home in the late afternoon, we come across Art Escape Studios, with an open house for the local First Friday Art Tour:

And then upon arriving at home, I am rather astonished to see three Porsches parked at a neighbor’s house, just three doors away. (Some investigation is warranted; perhaps some intelligence will be forthcoming.)  Getting dark now.