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OriginalGeek

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17. We were about 40 miles away

Reply to lpbk2713 (Reply #16)

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 12:32 PM

Jan 2015

Having a smoke break on the back patio of the Tech school we attended. Was with friends and my future wife and we watched it go up like many launches before and we all turned to each other and said "that ain't right..." went back inside and watched it on the cafeteria TVs the rest of the day.

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