Holy shit you guys we just watched #Artemis go from the plane

[the_etrain@beige.party]

@samvarma
That's wild.

[heathborders@hachyderm.io]

@samvarma whole plane lurches to the left as everyone tries to watch the spaceship

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@snork303

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@VWDasher Nope quite honestly that was incredible

[thoreau@mas.to]

@bazurk @samvarma True story!

I think from the plane's perspective they were far enough away, but from the ground the plane looked close enough to the rocket to make me scrunch up my face and try to do mental math involving a rocket traveling south on a vertical incline 100 degrees at 7.8 to 7.9 kms/s and a plane traveling north at 965 km/hr..... adjust for wind, carry the one, try not to have a small heart attack....

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@Thoreau @bazurk Well this is the location that was GPS stamped onto the photo… We were severely far away from that...

Someone else mentioned a plane being super close and it couldn't possibly have been us thinking about it now

[nak@infosec.exchange]

@samvarma Awesome. Thanks for sharing

[bazurk@social.lol]

@samvarma @Thoreau

I have an anxiety disorder. I’d still freak out.

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@heathborders plane was actually half empty, but I did AirDrop the photos and footage to anybody who wanted it

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@bazurk @Thoreau Fair enough. Probably shouldn't mention that I popped the emergency exit open to get the shot

[bazurk@social.lol]

@samvarma @Thoreau

Yeah don’t sit next to me on a plane. Ever.

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@bazurk @Thoreau Noted

[thoreau@mas.to]

@samvarma @bazurk Aw, it had to be a different plane, because my plane was flying along the coast line on a northerly route.

[forestfern@mastodon.social]

@samvarma Thank you for sharing this!

[rayotron@mstdn.social]

@samvarma

So cool! Thanks for sharing!

I watched the last moonshot, Apollo 17, go up from Lakeland. It was late at night. It makes these views all the more meaningful to me.

[pmfl@masto.pt]

@samvarma Wow, what a view!

[ericthebeeover2@mastodon.au]

@samvarma @bazurk @Thoreau

Well I hope the air stewards refused to give you another glass of wine or snack!! Shame on you!

[simplicator@federate.social]

@heathborders @samvarma Ha!
Just to say, in reality it wouldn’t matter, not like in a small boat.
But if everyone ran to the front or back, that would indeed be catastrophic.

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@samvarma Did you know you’d be flying during the launch, chose the side of the plane accordingly? Or was it sheer luck? Did the pilot announce it before you saw it? It must’ve been very exciting.

Anyway, what a wonderful way to have seen the launch.

[michael@social.chrisco.me]

@samvarma thats so cooo!!