Photo Credit: Gene Blevins, L.A. Daily News
Yesterday morning, I happened to roll out of bed at 2:45 a.m., just in time to witness the historic launch of the first Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg AFB at 3:02 a.m. PDT.
It was a pretty amazing display! Living as close as we do to VAFB, we've seen several missle launches over the past few years. However, this one was different.
First, we saw an orange fireball light up the sky. It quickly rose into the air and appeared to be heading directly for our house!
The rumble finally caught up, growing louder and louder until the house began shaking. Had I not known what was happening, I would have thought we were having a good-sized earthquake!
I watched until the fireball passed to the south beyond the horizon. It was a great spectacle, and definitely worth... um... accidentally waking up in the middle of the night to see.
My daughter in the next room was awake when I went to check on her. Being the child of a rocket scientist, these launches are no big deal for her. She saw her first live launch before she was a month old.
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More about the Atlas 5 Launch at Spaceflight Now.
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