Titan IV Vandenberg AFB
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the only interesting thing about lompoc, besides the tiny airport, walmart, starbucks, the 40,000 liquor stores, prison, and cloudy beach
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That view is fucking awesome. the sound is nice too. these launches are probably the best thing about Lompoc.
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My Dad was a Snr. Mstr. Sgt. at VAFB and we lived on base- I remeber he would tell me on the days they were launching so I wouldn't be afraid that it was an earthquake- I actually fell out of bed once when they launched...lol. (this was back in the mid 60's)
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i liked living there. best part of mah childhood. pretty sure my dad helped launch that one
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What memories of watching a launch and then the sound wave hit you......
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Great shot of the last Titan IV launch ever!
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I know I realised that a wee bit after I posted the comment when I was looking around @ some other sites
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i just stumbled across this. it's crazy b/c i had just moved out to lompoc & was at work on central ave when this took place. everyone kind of stopped what they were doing & went out to watch. i'd never seen a launch before & was surprised at how loud & how much force there is (i don't know why, i just was). it rattled the windows in the building & it was a considerable distance away. awesome stuff though.
No missile has ever been used as an ICBM IE not for real, the Tiatn was designed as an ICBM, if you go to Vandenberg AFB, there is a time table for these test flights, but they don't state if they are tesing them as ICBM or space lauch vehicles they are just testing them. @ the end of the day it's just a rocket for lauching shit into space both roles are similar it's just an ICBM comes down a lot quicker. If it was lauching a satelite it would be from cape canaveral Air Force Station.
yakacm 4 years ago
Negative, they do satellite launches at VAFB too.
xylicon 4 years ago