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Flaxbee

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4. Damn! We just saw it probably a few seconds after lift off - maybe a minute after

Reply to krispos42 (Reply #2)

Sat Sep 7, 2013, 01:09 AM

Sep 2013

because I bolted outside right after it launched. Then my husband and I were wandering around "where is it? where is it? There it is!!"

It was pretty spectacular. Glad you saw it, too.

Sounds like some of the sexier stuff could be seen a little later after lift off when it was too far away for us in Virginia to see.

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Anyone else just watch the LADEE moon probe take off?? I'm in Virginia and ran outside [View all] Flaxbee Sep 2013 OP

We saw it, Erin! Bertha Venation Sep 2013 #1

Hooray! It was a little cloudy here, we saw it once, then went Flaxbee Sep 2013 #3

and much love back Bertha Venation Sep 2013 #5

I saw it from Saint-Mary's-by-the-Sea in Bridgeport, CT krispos42 Sep 2013 #2

Damn! We just saw it probably a few seconds after lift off - maybe a minute after Flaxbee Sep 2013 #4