I wanna see a rocketship!

No such luck for me. We'll have to see about the Saturday launch. 
 

And here's an FYI to those of us from states without toll roads: when visiting a state WITH tolls, you can buy a $5 Sun Pass automatic toll sensor before going to the car rental place. Otherwise, some rental agencies will charge you $12 PER DAY for the convenience of borrowing theirs -- PLUS your tolls >:(

Now you know. 

We went to the Space View Park in Titusville on Saturday for the launch of a host of Starlink satellites. There were a bunch of people there, a lot of stories to share, and dolphins and manatees showed up, too.

 Apparently due to high winds (for the retrieval of the booster, I'm told) they delayed and delayed it and then pushed it back until Sunday afternoon. We had a very disappointed car full heading back. 
 

On Sunday we were at our resort in Orlando and weren't driving back the 1.5+ hours with kids for another *possible* launch, so we found a wide open parking lot and faced East. As we were heading to our viewing spot we saw a couple standing there staring East. My wife called it-- turns out they were there to see it too. It was fun to have company for the show, the couple there was knowledgeable about how it would go and the guy played the video while I aimed my camera at the sky. About 30 seconds in, my oldest spotted it and we saw it blaze through the sky. SO COOL. That white dash in the upper right is the flame

Funny thing, afterward my kids were just bewildered at all the people going about their day, oblivious to it. Haha, I get it :)

About that flight - due to some performance improvements, it was the heaviest payload launched on a Falcon 9. 17.5 tons, including one more satellite than previous Florida Starlink launches. So that's cool.

 I think it was the 13th flight for that booster.

Looks like I'm heading down again, time to brush off the rocket schedule links!

Very cool. We totally missed the one the other night. Got the ping–one hour until launch–and then got lost watching TV. 

P3PPY said:

Looks like I'm heading down again, time to brush off the rocket schedule links!

There is a app for that now. Spacecoastlaunch. 

David S. Wallens said:

Very cool. We totally missed the one the other night. Got the ping–one hour until launch–and then got lost watching TV. 

You also missed one about 10 minutes ago :)

In reply to Keith Tanner :

It’s like one every few days around here. 

In reply to David S. Wallens :

You're not wrong. But there's a big one coming, maybe this weekend.

Keith Tanner said:

David S. Wallens said:

Very cool. We totally missed the one the other night. Got the ping–one hour until launch–and then got lost watching TV. 

You also missed one about 10 minutes ago :)

HA! We have some friends snow-birding it down there for the month of Jan with their kids. We're all gonna meet up when we get down there so I was texting with them about upcoming launches. Then I saw one for Jan 6 atttt RIGHT THEN -- I phoned them and was like "hey get the kids outside, there's a launch in 50 seconds"

"you said 50 minutes from now?"

"No, SECONDS- as in 35, 34, 33!"

Reminds me of the joke:

Guy goes into the doctor for a random back pain. The doc comes back and says "I've got bad news, it's terminal."

Patient: "Oh no! How long do I have to live, doc??"

Doc: "Five"

Patient: "'Five'?? Five months? Five years??"

Doc: "four, three, two..."

In reply to P3PPY :

When they did the controlled demolition, or whatever they called it, to test crew escape measures a few years back, a friend and I met at Space View Park. 

Healthy crowd but not too bad. IIRC, the launch was pushed back an hour or so but it still lifted off that morning.

The rocket quickly disappeared in the clouds.

“Awwwwww,” from the crowd.

Then, a second later, it emerged.

“Yay!”

Then it exploded!!

It was like watching something from Hollywood. (Yes, somewhere I have photos shot with a big lens.)