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If you want to know about rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base before they become just pretty contrails in the evening sky, this is the place to be.
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Next Launch: A Falcon-9 carrying Starlink Group 9-6 may go to orbit on Thursday, late afternoon.


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Upcoming Launches
Want to learn what rocket launches are impending?
Orionid Meteor Shower Halley's comet only comes around every 75 years, but its dust trail? Yearly fireworks!
International Space Station
Information on viewing the International Space Station.
Rainbow trail left by the 10/2/99 M-II launch (photo by Dave Vosburg)
On October 2, 1999, a test of a prospective National Missile Defense interceptor provided much of the U.S. West Coast with some spectacular views of a Minuteman II launch. Check here for photos, films, and viewing reports.
Vandenberg AFB
Some background information on our closest launch facility...
Tour of Vandenberg AFB
A report of my June, 1998 tour (with photos)
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