anyone in the los angeles area see the j.p.l rocket tonight? It wen't up and exploded in a blue smoke.........made my night

 

What exactly is the JPL rocket?

-Mike

 

saw it!!! it was nuts

 

Jet Propulsion Laboratories

Saw it coming home from class tonight, always a good show...

 

but what's funny about it all is that they claim that "We Never Set Off Rockets Of Any Kind!" HAHAHA, sure you don't

 

I think that was a missle launch from Vendenburg; prob'ly a minuteman that was shot down.

Saw the cool colors all the way out here in Palm Springs!

 

saw it here in vegas too. that was the 2nd one in the last month....chris

 

I lived at Vandenburg, AFB 1968-1972, Surf, California-on NO MAP. They shot 47 Minutemen III's at a cost of 33.5 millions dollars each. This was the height of the "Cold War". Payload included GPS, Global Positioning Satellites that as you know are still in use today. Then it was "Top Secret Payload". The base is on 250,000 acres of Government Property. Needless to say I had a dirt bike back then and got closer to some of those missile shots than $eter in $oontang


the ground shakes and rocks...and you hold your ears and kiss your a$$....at 300 yards it is a rush....I was a crazy ****....


ps...oh yeah..they had to push to blow button when one of them went out of control and fragments showered over Trailer Park #7....cutting one trailer in half!! A women had her baby in her hands and a fragment hit her trailer!!! Thank God, she came out unscathed...they shut down trailer park #7....not immediately...but when trailers pulled out no new ones came in...LOL only in the military...

http://mocc.vandenberg.af.mil/launchsched.asp

 

Your tax dollars at work

 

Glad to know that I helped pay for that exploding rocket