SpaceX launches

We're in Florida, SpaceX is doing launches... can we see them?

We had talked to a few folks here in the campground and they indicated that the launches can be seen from this location, so, since a launch was scheduled for Tuesday morning at a reasonable time, so we decided to try to watch it.

We started watching the countdown on TV when it came on about 10 minutes before the scheduled launch...

... beautiful blue skies in Florida (well, they weren't *that* blue to our eyes, but they were clear!).

When the launch occurred, we headed out of the rig to see what we could see... there are some trees east of us so we couldn't see much ...

... we walked down to the end of the campground road (just a few sites down from us) where the trees were not quite so thick...

... well... there it is... hmm... glad we didn't get up in the middle of the night!

We've heard that night launches are more visible. We are contemplating seeing about getting into a campsite on the east coast of Florida in March before we start heading north... SpaceX did 31 launches in 2021, planned 52 for 2022 and accomplished 61, and has a possible 100 planned for 2023 - so about 2 a week. We also can try driving from the campground in Orlando to Cape Canaveral. We'll definitely report on any further launch observations!