Falcon 9 Launch

On November 21, 2020, it was my privilege to have my granddaughter Ann Garrett (and her father Brian) accompany me to Vandenberg Air Force Base to see my 26th missile launch; their first launch.

If you can imagine it, the Falcon 9 is more than 200 feet in length (approximately like a 20 story building) takeoff on a plume of cryogenic liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene. Annie said it was awesome. As an added bonus we watched the first stage booster rocket return to Vandenberg (my first) and land a few hundred feet west of where it was launched from.