Philibuster

Yay thank you weather for delaying the test flight to a time that I can watch it.

Today Nasa launches a dummy Ares 1 rocket to test various components. Currently the launch time is marching along the day getting latter every few minutes. I’m watching the broadcast online at Night Sky.

Wait scratch that the launch is scrubbed. I had to take a call (I am at work) and right after that I flipped back to the broadcast and saw dark clouds everywhere and thought to myself hah there’s no way they are launching in that and sure enough that’s the case.

It’s 40 years to the date since Apollo 11. 40 years and we still are stuck in low earth orbit. As a kid that grew up in the late 80s early 90s I never understood why we had gone to the moon and that was it. Why weren’t we back there, why weren’t we still there. Where’s the moon base etc. But we are finally gearing up to go back but it’s taking too much time. I want to see men on mars before I die and it’s time to get moving. But anyways let’s celebrate Apollo. Nasa is and they are broadcasting a bunch of stuff on their website. Go check it out when you have a chance sometime today.

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