Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Thu Oct 11 2018 08:50:23 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 October 11 [2] West Coast Launch and Landing Image Credit & Copyright [3] : John Kraus [4] Explanation: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch dazzled [5] viewers along the U.S. west coast [6] after sunset on October 7. Rising from [7] Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, planet Earth, the Falcon 9's first stage then returned to a landing zone some 400 meters from the launch site less than 8 minutes after liftoff. Both launch and first stage landing [8] (left) are captured in the frame of this two image stack, recorded by a stationary, sound-activated camera set up on a nearby hill. This Falcon 9 rocket delivered its payload, an Earth-observing [9] satellite developed by Argentina's national space agency, to low Earth orbit. Of course, the Falcon 9 first stage [10] had flown before. Following a launch from Vandenberg on July 25 it was recovered after landing on the autonomous drone ship Just Read the Instructions [11] . Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [12] | Archive [13] | Submissions [14] | Index [15] | Search [16] | Calendar [17] | RSS [18] | Education [19] | About APOD [20] | Discuss [21] | > [22] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [23] (MTU [24] ) & Jerry Bonnell [25] (UMCP [26] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [27] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [28] A service of: ASD [29] at NASA [30] / GSFC [31] & Michigan Tech. U. [32] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1810/DSC_4229-Edit-2Falcon9Kraus2048.jpg [3] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [4] http://www.johnkrausphotos.com/ [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WEiZ4Eh6Nw [6] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=spacex+launch [7] https://www.space.com/ 42058-spacex-spectacular-nighttime-rocket-launch-saocom-1a.html [8] https://www.johnkrausphotos.com/ [9] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ [10] ap180421.html [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Autonomous_spaceport_drone_ship#Just_Read_the_Instructions [12] ap181010.html [13] archivepix.html [14] lib/apsubmit2015.html [15] lib/aptree.html [16] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [17] calendar/allyears.html [18] /apod.rss [19] lib/edlinks.html [20] lib/about_apod.html [21] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=181011 [22] ap181012.html [23] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [24] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [25] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [26] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [27] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [28] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [29] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [30] https://www.nasa.gov/ [31] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [32] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .