Broken collarbone and Rocket launch (Nov 23)

So, two very "exciting" things happened tonight.  I put "exciting" in quote because the first event that occurred caused someone some pain (and also some pain in the pocketbook!).  If you saw my previous post, well - Graham broke his collarbone! Oops!  

Here's the X-Ray:

Funny enough, this was the same bone he broke when he was 5 years old! Here's the copy of the X-Ray from that time:

And here's the blog post/link to almost exactly 6 years ago.  How uncanny!

https://cindyontour.blogspot.com/2015/12/grahams-broken-collar-bone.html

Graham fell when he was being chased by Charlie.  I wondered if it was perhaps his shoes.  I know he has slipped sometimes in those. But then he said it was probably the bicycle helmet he was wearing, where he was top-heavy. So well, there you go. 

Even a broken bone did not stop us from the next exciting event for the night though... a rocket launch! Yup, you heard right.  This was mainly the whole reason about coming up this way.  NASA is launching a DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) rocket which is its first planetary defense mission to destroy an asteroid.  Talk about WOW and AMAZING! It was scheduled to launch at 10:20pm and there I was, all worried about what we would do in between to kill some time.  Well, that broken collar bone and visit to the Urgent Care definitely kept the boys awake for a bit.  Ha ha!

Okay, road trip! It's so dark out here and there's nothing around us:

We went to one location but it was closed for a private NASA viewing. Boo!! So we drove up a hill and parked along side the cliff. Glad no one fell over!  One broken collarbone was plenty enough for one night :-P

The rocket launch was amazing!  The photos just does not do it justice:

Here's my quick video of it:

And here's the video that Charlie took from a camera: https://youtu.be/A70ZgslPgZM

Charlie was a bit shaky and there wasn't much to see towards the end in the video.  Ha ha! But the color commentary was kinda funny.  And if you're wondering that same thought - how long will it take for DART to hit that moonlet Dimorphos? Supposedly not until next year!  It will be interesting to see if it does. That's a whole lot of calculations to get that right.  Sheesh!

It's too bad you couldn't hear the ROAR that the rocket made after its launch. That was so cool! And you can't quite see the rocket in the photos either. It's only appearing as a blob of light:

Here's a photo I got off the internet so you can see what the rocket looks like from up close, just before launch:

Well, that was that!  Pretty exciting night so say the least.  Time to drive back to the RV park in the dark and fog:

Bobby just mentioned there's another rocket launch right before the New Year.  Maybe we'll do a day trip??!  :-D