The stiff wind carried quite a chill while waiting on the beach for the 4:47 a.m. launch of the fifth SpaceX Commercial Resupply (CRS) mission to the International Space Station on 10 January 2015 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The winter weather brought with it a stubborn cloud deck that would not dissipate like I hoped all night it would as is clearly evident in the time exposure from the beach of the launch. Though the Dragon spacecraft is […]

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