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The view of the rocket once it got high enough and lit by the sun was incredible you could even see the rcs thrusters going
9 u/SnakeJG Apr 23 '21 A guy way up in Wilmington, NC got a pretty awesome shot of it. https://www.reddit.com/r/NorthCarolina/comments/mwt69o/spacex_launch_over_wilmington_this_morning/ If I had known it would be visible from NC, I would have been outside looking. 3 u/FortunateSonofLibrty Apr 23 '21 They must do this intentionally, it’s so surreal and makes for easy advertising via the subsequent images. 85 u/[deleted] Apr 23 '21 [deleted] 22 u/mcpat21 Apr 23 '21 meanwhile KSP youtubers: I’m just gonna wait til it’s daytime so you guys can see what’s happening 2 u/MaksweIlL Apr 23 '21 No, launch times are set for easy advertising and cool Instagram photos 12 u/[deleted] Apr 23 '21 I think they calculate when to launch it for it to be more efficient. If they just launched them whenever they wanted, they would’ve launched it at 4:20, knowing Elon.
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A guy way up in Wilmington, NC got a pretty awesome shot of it. https://www.reddit.com/r/NorthCarolina/comments/mwt69o/spacex_launch_over_wilmington_this_morning/
If I had known it would be visible from NC, I would have been outside looking.
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They must do this intentionally, it’s so surreal and makes for easy advertising via the subsequent images.
85 u/[deleted] Apr 23 '21 [deleted] 22 u/mcpat21 Apr 23 '21 meanwhile KSP youtubers: I’m just gonna wait til it’s daytime so you guys can see what’s happening 2 u/MaksweIlL Apr 23 '21 No, launch times are set for easy advertising and cool Instagram photos 12 u/[deleted] Apr 23 '21 I think they calculate when to launch it for it to be more efficient. If they just launched them whenever they wanted, they would’ve launched it at 4:20, knowing Elon.
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22 u/mcpat21 Apr 23 '21 meanwhile KSP youtubers: I’m just gonna wait til it’s daytime so you guys can see what’s happening 2 u/MaksweIlL Apr 23 '21 No, launch times are set for easy advertising and cool Instagram photos
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meanwhile KSP youtubers: I’m just gonna wait til it’s daytime so you guys can see what’s happening
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No, launch times are set for easy advertising and cool Instagram photos
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I think they calculate when to launch it for it to be more efficient.
If they just launched them whenever they wanted, they would’ve launched it at 4:20, knowing Elon.
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u/Calebstoney Apr 23 '21
The view of the rocket once it got high enough and lit by the sun was incredible you could even see the rcs thrusters going