Five things overheard while watching last week’s DARPA’s Minotaur launch from Vandenberg from Long Beach (all quotes verbatim from actual Long Beach residents):
1. “Look at that contrail, it was totally out of control!”
2. “It looks like a spaceship blew up!”
3. “Yeah, it was something launched from the desert”
4. “Did something crash?”
5. “As soon as it dumped that jet, it hit the rocket and just took off out of there!”
The launch contrail as seen from Mt. Wilson’s Towercam.
