It’s A Bird…It’s A Plane…

Everyone who lives in Southern California has gotten used to seeing this unique “streak” across the night sky. So what is it?

Well, it’s the future of space travel!

A SpaceX rocket launched Monday from Vandenberg Space Force Base northwest of Santa Barbara – and as usual, it left a long trail of exhaust that was illuminated by the setting sun.

That’s an exhaust plume trailing the capsule as he zooms across the sky…as reported:

“Elon Musk’s enormous “mega rocket” which didn’t carry a payload or people, did not survive the landing on Thursday. But it did cruise through space and plummet back through Earth’s atmosphere before exploding, a watershed moment for SpaceX, 22 years to the day after it was founded.”

Here’s why thee launches are such a big deal. The report goes on to note:

“The rapid progress of the Starship-Super Heavy launch system’s development offers high hopes the 400-foot-tall behemoth will be fully functional — and fully reusable — very soon.”

The mega-rocket part of Musk’s plan to lower the cost of these launches to about $10-million per launch!

Here is the really cool video I captured when my wife Alex and I were visiting friends in Pasadena, and just happened to look up at exactly the right moment – I put the video to the song “Rocket Man” because it just seemed to make sense!

At the time I shot this, the launches weren’t publicly acknowledged ahead of time, so it was quite the mysterious surprise – here’s what I posted about all of the activity underway in outer space!

With talk of going back to the moon, we can’t forget that we are also on Mars right now:

NASA is sending back lots of cool videos from he surface of Mars…see some of it here:

And hav you ever wondered what outer space sounds like?

Well, it does make a sound and someone put it to incredible visuals of the heavens…check it out here:

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