Pretty impressive. We were lucky enough to see a night launch about three years ago. We were parked about 100 miles WSW of the launch site. When they fired the engines it lit up the whole eastern sky. We could hear the engines even that far away. Turned on the NASA channel while the launch was going on. We could still see a speck when they said the vehicle was 500 miles down range. Kind of a shame that launches nowdays are hardly more than another mundane occurance.
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