Can't see it Naked Eye :( I'm right outside of Boston and even at its brightest, it'll be really hard to see it without at least binoculars.

And the weather has also been really bad. Terrible clouds and very bad transparency.

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it would likely kill SLS, though.

If you can't make a human rated rocket for this much in R&D and this much per launch... honestly not sure how you lie to the public even more than they already have.

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how did it look with your naked eye? really hoping i can get a good view of this thing. im in the city in the NE area and its over our area every evening but light pollution is horrible.

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I mean the Reddit repost and title. It doesn’t tell anyone that that’s what the article’s about.

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I feel you about the cold! Definitely makes it much harder.

Did you try to find it naked eye or did you use a telescope/binoculars? I hear that the comet is pretty easy to spot with binoculars if you haven't tried that.

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WASP-121b because it's so hot that it rains sapphires and rubies. Absolutely astounding

That one planet with the 90m km rings, I forgot its name

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How is on the damn launch pad any different?

Thank you for sharing. I can remember walking thru the student union at college. Lots of people standing around the TVs that were located in the halls, and the area was much quieter than normal. I got that bad feeling you get when you know something really bad just happened and dread finding out. It was one of those rare moments of shared sorrow in your life you can recall decades later with vivid emotional clarity, like it was flash-burned into your psyche.

Manned space flight is critical to our future, but carries great risk. It takes a special kind of hero to put it all on the line to make it happen. The crews of Apollo1, Challenger, and Columbia made the ultimate sacrifice to move us all forward, may their memories be eternal.

I was a senior in high school. I watched the launch live on a small tv in a wardrobe room of the ROTC facility, as at the time I was in ROTC.

I was stunned, so I stepped out and got the instructors who were in their office.

We all crowded in to watch the broadcast as they kept playing what happened over and over. It was definitely a “where were YOU when X happened?” kind of moment.

(It was a 2nd period “free” time slot but I was granted permission to schedule it as I was considered a good student, so I did independent study, hence sitting in the wardrobe room watching the launch while doing some homework.)

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I. Looked for about a hour maybe the sky is not dark enough, if I saw it wasn't like woe look at that, so I'm disappointed, maybe the sky will be better tomorrow, it's just too Damm cold outside

I was in the 5th grade. I'm not sure why we didn't watch the launch live, but we had just come in from recess. Our 5th grade teacher told us to sit down he had some bad news to tell us. We had just had a field trip rescheduled, so I said, don't tell me the field trip is canceled again. He got this stern look on his face and told me to sit down. I felt like shit when he told us what happened. We were then taken to the library to watch the news coverage of what happened. It was a really sad day. We had been following the coverage of the first teacher in space for a while and for it to end up in tragedy, was difficult to comprehend. The teacher's talked to us about how they would never forget where they were when Kennedy was assassinated. They told us we will never forget this day either. They were correct. We didn't have class the rest of the day we just watched news and discussed what happened. Of course there were some kids cracking jokes about it. I didn't understand how they could make jokes about it, and how they came up with them so fast. However joking about tragedy is a copping mechanism for some. So in my life I won't forget this day, 911, and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

It blows my mind how this moon race has resurfaced and has the feel of "can we do it???". We did it with technology dumber than the phone in my pocket 50+ years ago but we're all excited about a race to do it again? Why? Talk to me when we're heading to Mars.

I was in the hospital following a bad car wreck the day before. I had numerous fractures and was totally spaced on pain meds. I was watching the TV in my room. I thought it was a movie with bad special effects!

It's not like we're having regular human babies