GLAST Launch

At 12:05 p.m. EDT, the Delta II rocket easily lifted the GLAST spacecraft off the launch pad, out of smoke and clouds and into a beautiful Florida sky headed for space. GLAST is now on its own with its solar arrays deployed and placed into a circular orbit 350 miles above the Earth, prepared to monitor the universe and the mysterious gamma-ray bursts.

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Science & Technology

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• NASA
• GLAST
• spacecraft
• Delta
• II
• rocket

[PRIVATEAYEIEYE]

Hey Spaceheads!

In about '68-69 a rocket was launched that produced a large glowing green smoke ring in the upper atmosphere. We could see it for one night in the burbs of DC.

Any clues? I'd love to find an old news report on the thing.

It was FUTURISTIC!

[AlphaMistafiedOmega]

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[tsiou31281]

Impressive!

[BA418]

nasa is sending out a lot of rockets recently

[jurasino5]

very nice